“A man in daily muddy contact with field experiments could not be expected to have much faith in any direct assumption of independently distributed normal errors.”
Source: Science and Statistics (1976), p. 795
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In The Wave Theory, Light and Spectra. Prismatic and Diffraction Spectra. Memoirs by Joseph Von Fraunhofer (1981), p. 38
Tout le monde y croit cependant, me disait un jour M. Lippmann, car les expérimentateurs s'imaginent que c'est un théorème de mathématiques, et les mathématiciens que c'est un fait expérimental.
Calcul des probabilités (2nd ed., 1912), p. 171
Source: What Is This Thing Called Science? (Third Edition; 1999), Chapter 1, Science as knowledge derived form the facts of experience, p. 8.
“Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.”
Source: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 114
Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs: Authors, 931 ; Subjects, 1393 ; Quotations, 10, 200, p. 399
“Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let’s you and me not go there, okay?”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
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