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21 August 2022
Peter Bevelin - Collected Quotes
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"Changes in size or time influences form, function and behavior. If something of a certain size is made bigger or smaller, it may n...
16 June 2021
On Knowledge (Unsourced)
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"All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and ill...
21 March 2020
On Chance (BC)
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"No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so....
16 February 2020
From Parts to Wholes (1700-1799)
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"Probability is a degree of certainty and it differs from certainty as a part from a whole." (Jacob Bernoulli, "Ars Conjectan...
26 November 2019
Benjamin Disraeli - Collected Quotes
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"It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these o...
17 November 2019
James Surowiecki - Collected Quotes
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"Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not cons...
12 October 2019
Mental Models XVII
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"As infinite kinds of almost identical images arise continually from the innumerable atoms and flow out to us from the gods, so we shou...
30 June 2019
On Intuition (1800-1849)
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“We construct concepts when we represent them in intuition a priori, without experience, or when we represent in intuition the object which...
09 September 2018
On Extrema II (Extrema in Context)
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“As in mathematics, when there is no maximum nor minimum, in short nothing distinguished, everything is done equally, or when that is not no...
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