"In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged."

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Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 6 "Bayes Rule", p. 81), 2006.

Dennis Lindley

#Appreciation Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.”
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”

Source : "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.
“We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals”
“I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.”
“Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly.”
“The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance”
“All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.”

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