Quotable Mathematics

"As an instrument for selecting at random, I have found nothing superior to dice. It is most tedious to shuffle cards thoroughly be- tw...

"Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessi...

"[…] in the Law of Errors we are concerned only with the objective quantities about which mathematical reasoning is ordinarily exercise...

"From the foregoing we see that the two justifications each leave something to be desired. The first depends entirely on the hypothetic...

"A belief system, through its memes, can spread in a way that looks just like a conspiracy without any conscious intention on the part ...

"[...] every culture in the world has had its own unique history and we can not therefore say that any culture observable in the presen...

"The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being." (Thomas Carlyle, "Jean Paul Friedric...

"If observation be the soil, reading is the manure of intellectual culture." (Daniel Drake, "Physician to the West: Selected ...

"It is the destiny of our race to become united into one great body, thoroughly connected in all its parts, and possessed of similar cu...

"A social system consists in a plurality of individual actors interacting with each other in a situation which has at least a physical ...