Quotable Mathematics

"The universal cause is one thing, a particular cause another. An effect can be haphazard with respect to the plan of the second, but n...

"Some of the common ways of producing a false statistical argument are to quote figures without their context, omitting the cautions as...

"Keep in mind that a correlation may be real and based on real cause and effect, and still be almost worthless in determining action in...

"Every bit of knowledge we gain and every conclusion we draw about the universe or about any part or feature of it depends finally upon...

"Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards ...

"As in a block of marble all possible figures are potentially contained in it, and can be drawn out of it by the movement or by the act...

"Despite the prevailing use of graphs as metaphors for communicating and reasoning about dependencies, the task of capturing informatio...

"When one combines the new insights gained from studying far-from-equilibrium states and nonlinear processes, along with these comp...

"Today it is no longer questioned that the principles of the analysts are the more far-reaching. Indeed, the synthesists lack two thing...

"Indeed, except for the very simplest physical systems, virtually everything and everybody in the world is caught up in a vast, nonline...

"Is a random outcome completely determined, and random only by virtue of our ignorance of the most minute contributing factors? Or are ...

"Cybernetics is concerned primarily with the construction of theories and models in science, without making a hard and fast distinction...

"In fact, it is empirically ascertainable that every event is actually produced by a number of factors, or is at least accompanied by n...

"An opportunity for cybernetics to change the course of the philosophy of mind was missed when intentionality was misinterpreted as ...

"It is thus that in the universe everything is connected; it is itself but an immense chain of causes and effects, which flow without c...

"Computation offers a new means of describing and investigating scientific and mathematical systems. Simulation by computer may be the ...

"All effects follow not with like certainty from their supposed causes." (David Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understand...