“It is unanimously agreed that statistics depends somehow on probability. But, as to what probability is and how it is connected with statistics, there has seldom been such complete disagreement and breakdown of communication since the Tower of Babel. Doubtless, much of the disagreement is merely terminological and would disappear under sufficiently sharp analysis.”
― The Foundations of Statistics
― The Foundations of Statistics
“How much faith a person requires in order to flourish, how much “fixed opinion” he requires which he does not wish to have shaken, because he holds himself thereby―is a measure of his power (or more plainly speaking, of his weakness).”
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“When the past speaks it always speaks as an oracle: only if you are an architect of the future and know the present will you understand it.”
― On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
― On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
“To generalize: feelings about values are always behind the times; they express conditions of preservation and growth that belong to times long gone by; they resist new conditions of existence with which they cannot cope and which they necessarily misunderstand: thus they inhibit and arouse suspicion against what is new.”
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