Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
1890s, The Path of the Law (1897)
Source: Structure of American economy, 1919-1929, 1941, p. 9.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
1890s, The Path of the Law (1897)
“This work may be best described as an attempt to construct a of the United States.”
Wassily Leontief (1906–1999) Russian economist
Source: Structure of American economy, 1919-1929, 1941, p. 9; As cited in: Ronald E. Miller, peter D. Blair Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions, (2009), p. 730.
Alan Lightman (1948) Physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist
A Sense of the Mysterious : Science and the Human Spirit (2005), p. 200<!-- Pantheon Books isbn=0375423206 -->
Context: In the 1950s, academics forecast that as a result of new technology, by the year 2000 we could have a twenty-hour workweek. Such a development would be a beautiful example of technology at the service of the human being.... According to the Bureau of Statistics, the goods and services produced per hour of work in the United States has indeed more than doubled since 1950.... However, instead of reducing the workweek, the increased efficiencies and productivities have gone into increasing the salaries of workers.... Workers... rather have used their increased efficiencies and resulting increased disposable income to purchase more material goods.... Indeed, in a cruel irony, the workweek has actually lengthened.... More work is required to pay for more consumption, fueled by more production, in an endless, vicious circle.
Ragnar Frisch (1895–1973) Norwegian economist
Accordingly, the quantitative study of economic phenomena here considered may be termed econometrics. <br class="br">Frisch (1927) as quoted in Divisia 1953, pp.24-25; Cited in: Bjerkholt, Olav. " Ragnar Frisch and the foundation of the Econometric Society and Econometrica http://www.ssb.no/a/histstat/doc/doc_199509.pdf." ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY MONOGRAPHS 31 (1998): 26-57. <br class="br">Lead paragraph of a memorandum on the importance of establishing the journal "Oekonometrika" <br class="br">1920
“To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.”
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
As quoted in Chance Rules : An Informal Guide to Probability, Risk, and Statistics (1999) by Brian Everitt, p. 137
John Barnes book Mother of Storms
Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 511
Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017) American economist
Source: 1970s-1980s, The Economics of Information (1984), p. 55
“Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.”
Ian Hacking (1936) Canadian philosopher
Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 12, Political Arithmetic, p. 102.
John Derbyshire (1945) writer
John Derbyshire On Why Race Realism Makes More Sense Than “Magic Dirt” Theory http://www.vdare.com/articles/john-derbyshire-on-why-race-realism-makes-more-sense-than-magic-dirt-theory, VDARE, November 1, 2015.
Mihajlo D. Mesarovic (1928) Serbian academic
Mesarovic (1964) cited in: Shatrughna P. Sinha (1991) Instant encyclopaedia of geography. 1. Introduction to geography. Mittal Publications, p. 467