...this idea of replacing God and the gods running future events with something even more religiously fundamentalist: the unconditional belief in the idea of scientific prediction regardless of the domain, the aim to squeeze the future into numerical relations whether reliable or unreliable. For we have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb  

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