"...when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of science, whatever the matter may be."
Saturday, November 13, 2004
The importance of numbers
Bought the third edition of "Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology" by John C. Davis - a lot of it looks familiar, but it's good to have this on the shelf. I like the good old citation at the beginning from Lord Kelvin -- I have seen it several times before, but it still sounds important:
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