"Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler."

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Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Prologue, p. 15), 2006.

Dennis Lindley

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“It was a completely new feeling for meâ€“like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.”
“Any good groupie loves the music so much it's part of the bloodstream”
“Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.”
“Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.”
“What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we should posit and ascribe to it all the affirmations we make in regard to beings, and, more appropriately, we should negate all these affirmations, since It surpasses all being. Now we should not conclude that the negations are simply the opposites of the affirmations, but rather that the cause of all is considerably prior to this, beyond privations, beyond every denial, beyond every assertion.”
“Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.”
“And he [Franklin Roosevelt] got the votes of every southern white voting state in the country and wouldn't have been elected president once, let alone four times, if he hadn't. Now, at the same time he acquired over the years a reputation for being sympathetic to blacks, and he got their votes, heaven knows.”
“I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.”

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