eGad: Churchill, the bomb(s) and probability

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Of course, my bad!

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WC believed that were his final moment on earth to arrive via a German bomb, it would be due to chance.
He quoted mathematician H. Poincare: "I take refuge beneath the impenetrable arch of probability."
 
"unswerving punctuality of chance"---W. Gaddis

    
             

  

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