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“Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.”

Quote by Lancelot Hogben

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Lancelot Hogben

Lancelot Hogben was a prominent British statistician born on December 9, 1895, and died on August 22, 1975. He had a significant impact on the field of statistics, particularly in biostatistics and demographic statistics. more

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