"Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent."
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"When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain."
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"We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight."
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"All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again."
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"Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life."
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"That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject."
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"Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'"
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"...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty."
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"Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more."
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"One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics."
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"Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections."
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"'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all."
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"Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
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"Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones."
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"Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."
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"In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death."
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"Nature has neither kernel Nor shell"
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"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
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"'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'"
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"The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units."
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