Daniël Zevenhuizen’s Reviews > The Taming Of Chance > Status Update

People are normal if they conform to the central tendency of [social and personal] laws, while those at the extremes are pathological. Few of us fancy being pathological, so 'most of us' try to make ourselves normal, which in turn affects what is normal. Atoms have no such inclinations. The human sciences display a feedback effect not to be found in physics. (2)