Quotable Mathematics

"Given the important role that correlation plays in structural equation modeling, we need to understand the factors that affect establi...

"For any system the environment is always more complex than the system itself. No system can maintain itself by means of a point-for-po...

"Nature normally hates power laws. In ordinary systems all quantities follow bell curves, and correlations decay rapidly, obeying expon...

"Another thing to watch out for is a conclusion in which a correlation has been inferred to continue beyond the data with which it has ...

"It had appeared from observation, and it was fully confirmed by this theory, that such a thing existed as an 'Index of Correlation...