Quotable Mathematics

"A heuristic is ecologically rational to the degree that it is adapted to the structure of an environment. Thus, simple heuristics and ...

"A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfe...

"The Risk of losing any Sum is the reverse of Expectation; and the true measure of it is, the product of the Sum adventured multiplied ...

"A normal distribution is most unlikely, although not impossible, when the observations are dependent upon one another - that is,...