A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for… — Shaun Tomson Copy Share Image
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ralston stiffened at the reference to the stupid wager that caused so much pain and unhappiness. He ignored Oxford's proffered hand, and… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
People are tempted to think (understandably) that if God were really good He'd never allow any evil in the world at all.… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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