It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.
ROBERT HOOKERobert Hooke Quotes
Full Name:Robert Hooke FRS
Profession:English polymath
Born:28 July 1635, Freshwater, U.K
Died:3 March 1703, London, U.K
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It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.
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An individual who is afraid to go outdoors for fear of being hit by a meteorite is generally regarded as neurotic.
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Statistics are history, and we gather them so that we can learn from history.”
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Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?”
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As in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive.
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Sensible people take precautions against possible disasters, and of course one man’s idea of precaution is another man’s silly worry.
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And because also there are many Objects to be met with in the night, which cannot so conveniently be kept perhaps till the day, therefore to procure and cast a sufficient quantity of light on an Object in the night, I thought of, and often used this, Expedient.
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Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.
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The footsteps of Nature are to be trac’d, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts, to make many doublings and turnings, and to use some kind of art in endeavouring to avoid our discovery.
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