Whether statistics be an art or a science… or a scientific art.
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.
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The 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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In inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observe.
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It is the basis of social and political dynamics.
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It would appear… that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive.
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And 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.
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And leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.
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The more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced.
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We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.
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We concern ourselves little.
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