Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of the Possible Over the Probable 🦇🔬

The bat is just as defiant of prediction as the Big Bang – small winged evidence that the possible is always vaster than the probable and the imagination of life is always greater than that of the living.

Maria Popova is more eloquent and clear than three quarters of science content on social media, and the rest can only aspire to be as well read as her.