“It has seemed to me that the theory (calcul) of probabilities ought to serve as the basis for the study of all the sciences, and particularly of the sciences of observation.”

— Adolphe Quetelet

Instructions populaires sur le calcul des probability (1825) English translation by R. Beamish (1839)

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