Klaas — Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Book page: klaas-fluke

From: Quotes batch 11

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Edition: Scribner (2024)

On Decision Making and Chaos

“Our lives are not steady streams of logical decisions; they are a series of collisions with random events that we post-rationalize into a coherent story.” (Chapter 1, p. 14)

On Society and History

“We are the beneficiaries and the victims of the flukes of our ancestors. A single wrong turn in 1914 or a missed meeting in 1945 defines the world we inhabit today.” (Chapter 3, p. 52)

On Critical Thinking

“The greatest cognitive error we make is believing that because something happened, it was destined to happen.” (Chapter 5, p. 118)