No computers in Emerson's time, but:
"We do not listen with the best regard
to the verses of a man who is only a poet,
nor to his problems if he is only an algebraist;
but if a man is at once acquainted
with the geometric foundation of things
and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact
and his arithmetic musical."
I only know the one famous (variously attributed - Disraeli, Churchill,
Twain) quotation on statistics....
Now, if we can only convince Ronan Conroy to give us another poem....
Lee
Lee Sieswerda, Epidemiologist
Thunder Bay District Health Unit
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:04 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: -help- vs. -whelp-
>
>
> At least he didn't impugn statistical or computer people
> -- in this quotation.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
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> Lee Sieswerda
>
> > Okay, how about this:
> >
> > "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
> > little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
>
>
> > > and thus sacrificed consistency. (At this
> > > point some may want to quote Emerson.)
>
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