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Professor of Mathematics Jordan Ellenberg is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin. He says that mathematics is not just a sequence of computations but a science of not being wrong. It鈥檚 a study of things that came out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be. He also talks about how statistics is accommodating randomness.

Philosopher Rupert Read is Chair of the 'Green House' think tank. He is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and co-editor of The New Wittgenstein. Rupert believes that when we are faced, as a society, with great peril or ruin, we should act on the evidence we have and not wait for certainty.

Zambian-born author Namwali Serpell is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She says that there's a relationship between the modern novel's capacity to unsettle and perplex us and its ethical value, in other words how authors uses uncertainty to engage and explain.聽聽

Rupert Read wants to protect future generations from short term political decision making by assigning randomly chosen citizens to a kind of powerful super jury that aims to serve the basic needs and rights of those people not yet born.