“In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.”
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind.”
Jan Tinbergen. "The necessity of quantitative social research." Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1973): 141-148.
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