Leonard Susskind, who is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and one of the founders of string theory. All of that makes him about as expert as you can get in the domain of science, yet here he is on one of its fundamental principles: “If I were to flip a coin a million times, I’d be damn sure I wasn’t going to get all heads,” he once wrote. “I’m not a betting man, but I’d be so sure that I’d bet my life or my soul on it…. I’m absolutely certain that the laws of large numbers—probability theory—will work and protect me. All
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