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... SCIENCE AND RARE EVENTS Science deals with regularities in our experience; art deals with singularities. It is no wonder that science tends to lose its predictive or even explanatory power when the phenomena it deals with are singular, unreproducible, and one of a kind that is, rare rather than regular, reproducible, and recurring.
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