Source: When Worlds Collide
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“What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?”
Source: My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)
Source: The queen of the sciences
Source: Mathematics, queen and servant of science
“Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.”
“Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
Source: The Early Illuminated Books
“The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.”
Source: Social statistics
Source: Structural Equations with Latent Variables
Source: The use of lateral thinking
Source: ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more
Source: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.”
“The religion of one seems madness unto another.”
Source: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths
“An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.”
Source: THE BARSOOM CHRONICLES - Under the Moons of Mars Series: Complete Collection (Illustrated): A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, The Warlord of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, A Fighting Man of Mars, Swords of Mars, Synthetic Men of Mars and more
“Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?”
Source: The Complete Science Fiction Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Illustrated): A Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, The Gods of Mars, Beyond Thirty, The Warlord of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, Pirates of Venus, The Monster Men and many more
“Even theories must have foundations.”
Source: THE VENUS SERIES - The Amtor of Venus Collection: Complete Edition (Pirates of Venus, Lost on Venus, Carson of Venus & Escape on Venus): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, The Mucker, Pellucidar, The Moon Maid, Tarzan at the Earth's Core and many more
“Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.”
Source: THE VENUS SERIES - The Amtor of Venus Collection: Complete Edition (Pirates of Venus, Lost on Venus, Carson of Venus & Escape on Venus): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, The Mucker, Pellucidar, The Moon Maid, Tarzan at the Earth's Core and many more
Source: Barsoom
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.”
Source: Auto-da-fé
“A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.”
“'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.”
“You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.”
“Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.”
Source: The Appearance of Man