Chance News 37

Quotation

How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?

Boethius (ca. 480-525)

Forsooth

If we can increase IQ by three to four points in the whole population, we can have fewer children at the low end and more Einsteins at the high end.

Dr, Michael Kramer, a professor of pediatrics at McGill University, the lead author of a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry involving nearly 14,000 children in Belarus.