The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
The law is agnostic about truth.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.
Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.