6 May 2009

Beyond the probable

I would say the strategy in looking for life in the universe [should be] to look for what's detectable, not what's probable. We have a tendency among the theorists in this field to guess what's probable. In fact our guesses are likely to be wrong. We never had as much imagination as nature.
-- Freeman Dyson, who imagines parabolic flowers spreading across the solar system.


For this is no Height in which there are not flowers.
-- Christopher Smart.
Evolution is cleverer than you are.
-- Orgel's second rule.

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