Morris H. DeGroot famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  • It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

  • It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

  • You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

  • While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.

  • ...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.

  • If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

  • To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

  • He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

  • The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy