"It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions."
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"Who then will explain the explanation?"
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"The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance."
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"Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time."
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"A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group."
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"43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot."
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"Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all."
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"The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy."
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"Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?"
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"Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind."
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"We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too."
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"I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say."
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"The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it."
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"In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon."
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"According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle."
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"Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning."
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"Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity."
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"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
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"The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it."
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"You know my methods. Apply them."
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