Ronald Fisher (1890–1962) English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist
Discussion to ‘Statistics in agricultural research’ by J.Wishart, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Supplement, 1, 26-61, 1934.
1930s
The causes of human variability. Eugenics Review 10, 213-220, 1918.
1910s–1920s
Ronald Fisher (1890–1962) English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist
Discussion to ‘Statistics in agricultural research’ by J.Wishart, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Supplement, 1, 26-61, 1934.
1930s
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) austrian biologist and philosopher
General System Theory (1968), 4. Advances in General Systems Theory
William Feller (1906–1970) Croatian-American mathematician
Note on the Use of this Book, p. xi-xii.
An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition)
Ronald Fisher (1890–1962) English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist
British Agricultural Bulletin 4, 217–218, 1951.
1950s
Ronald Fisher (1890–1962) English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist
25 February 1933, in a letter to L. Hogben. Printed in Natural Selection, Heredity, and Eugenics, J.H.Bennett, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983, p. 218.
1930s
Hermann Grassmann (1809–1877) German polymath, linguist and mathematician
the "ideas of analysis" to which he returned, are those quoted above.
Ausdehnungslehre (1844)
Ben Bernanke (1953) American economist
The Ten Suggestions http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20130602a.htm. Speech given at Baccalaureate Ceremony at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, June 2, 2013.
Adam Schaff (1913–2006) Polish Marxist philosopher and theorist
Source: Essays in the Philosophy of Language, 1967, p. 20-21
Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
First Report, p. 34
U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy (1946)
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geogr…
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Context: Once a German jurist of great renown, Ihering, wanted to sum up the scientific work of his life and write a treatise, in which he proposed to analyze the factors that preserve social life in society. "Purpose in Law" (Der Zweck im Rechte), such is the title of that book, which enjoys a well-deserved reputation.
He made an elaborate plan of his treatise, and, with much erudition, discussed both coercive factors which are used to maintain society: wagedom and the different forms of coercion which are sanctioned by law. At the end of his work he reserved two paragraphs only to mention the two non-coercive factors — the feeling of duty and the feeling of mutual sympathy — to which he attached little importance, as might be expected from a writer in law.
But what happened? As he went on analyzing the coercive factors he realized their insufficiency. He consecrated a whole volume to their analysis, and the result was to lessen their importance! When he began the last two paragraphs, when he began to reflect upon the non-coercive factors of society, he perceived, on the contrary, their immense, outweighing importance; and instead of two paragraphs, he found himself obliged to write a second volume, twice as large as the first, on these two factors: voluntary restraint and mutual help; and yet, he analyzed but an infinitesimal part of these latter — those which result from personal sympathy — and hardly touched free agreement, which results from social institutions.