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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor renowned for his exceptional performances in film, theater, and television. He won multiple awards, including two Academy Awards, for his masterful acting in various roles. Hoffman's career spanned a wide range of characters, from stage productions to Hollywood blockbusters, and his acting style was highly acclaimed. more

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“Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose. The choice is not whether to remain in the field of data or to theorize; the choice is only between models that are more or less abstract, generalized, near or more remote from direct observation, more or less suitable to represent observed phenomena.”

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Author:Ludwig von Bertalanffy
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“I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.”

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Book:Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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