Whether statistics be an art or a science… or a scientific art.
ADOLPHE QUETELETWhether statistics be an art or a science… or a scientific art.
ADOLPHE QUETELETWe concern ourselves little.
ADOLPHE QUETELETIt is the basis of social and political dynamics.
ADOLPHE QUETELETIt would appear… that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive.
ADOLPHE QUETELETIn inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observe.
ADOLPHE QUETELETThe more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced.
ADOLPHE QUETELETAnd affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
ADOLPHE QUETELETWe may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.
ADOLPHE QUETELETAnd leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.
ADOLPHE QUETELETThe more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge.
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