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Statistics Quotes by William James
- If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the…
- A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific…
- If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to…
- There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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- We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have… — Niels Bohr
- The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine