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A few worthy quotes … it is not so much to see what no one has yet seen - but to think what nobody yet has thought about - that which everybody sees. - Schopenhauer Persons should always be seen as ends in themselves, never as a means to an end. - Kant "I often think it odd that [history] should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention." -Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1798, but not published until 1818) No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Stanislaw J. Lec; 1909-1966 Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. - Albert Einstein It is not the critic who counts,not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again... who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt I am done with big institutions and am for those tiny invisible moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world..., If you give them time, they will rend the hardest monuments of humankind. - William James Reasoning is simply the unbundling of intuition - Ken Wilber Never doubt that a small, dedicated group of people can change the world; Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead It is not our duty to complete the work, but neither are we free to desist from doing it.- Sayings of the Fathers (Hebrew Text) "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute understanding from people of ill will....We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."
- Martin Luther King, On Research & Statistics If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? - Albert Einstein. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -Aaron Levenstein A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. -Thomas Carlyle Most people use statistics as a drunken man uses a lamp post - for support rather than for illumination. - Andrew Lang Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds - and fanatics. It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. - Cassius J. Keyser You don’t need an F-test to know there’s a trout in your milk - unknown author
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