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e-mail: Gene.Denzel@mathstat.yorku.ca

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Some quotes

"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." -- George E. P. Box

"Humanists believe that the world has a fixed number of mysteries, so that when one is solved, our sense of wonder is diminished. Scientists believe that the world has endless mysteries, so that when one is solved, there are always new ones to ponder." -- D. O. Hebb quoted by Steven Pinker

"Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise." -- John W. Tukey, (1962), "The future of data analysis." Annals of Mathematical Statistics 33, 1-67.

"A bad answer to a good question is far better than a good answer to a bad question." -- a graduate class paraphrasing Tukey's dictum.

"The worst, i.e., most dangerous, feature of 'accepting the null hypothesis' is the giving up of explicit uncertainty . . . Mathematics can sometimes be put in such black-and-white terms, but our knowledge or belief about the external world never can." -- John W. Tukey. (1991). "The Philosophy of Multiple Comparisons." Statistical Science 6, 100--116.

"All models are wrong but some are useful" -- George E. P. Box

"An elementary demonstration is one that requires no knowledge -- just an infinite amount of intelligence." -- Richard Feynman.

"We at York must give special emphasis to the humanizing of man, freeing him from those pressures which mechanize the mind, which make for routine thinking, which divorce thinking and feeling, which permit custom to dominate intelligence, which freeze awareness of the human spirit and its possibilities..." -- Murray G. Ross

e-mail: Gene.Denzel@mathstat.yorku.ca

 Department of Mathematics and Statistics
York University
North York, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada 

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