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The best way of learning to reason, thought Galileo, is to study geometry:
Truly I begin to understand that although logic is an excellent instrument to govern our reasoning, it does not compare with the sharpness of geometry in awakening the mind to discovery. (Quoted from Dialogs Concerning Two New Sciences, by Galileo Galilei.)
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I wonder what Galileo might have said about statistics. The world must have seemed so much more certain before the introduction of probability, variance and error.
Posted by: Mark Rasmussen | June 28, 2007 at 08:45 PM