Two plain ivory cubes partly hidden inside open black velvet box

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Stephen Hawking

God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

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The quotation imagines God both playing dice and sometimes throwing them out of sight. Chance becomes something people may not be able to observe directly. The added image of hidden dice makes uncertainty harder to grasp, rather than simply denying that it exists.

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