All the peculiarities which lend to each language its particular character can be expressed in numbers. - N. S. Trubetzkoy
" ideas[1] = "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. - Johann von Neumann
" ideas[2] = "The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. - Johann von Neumann
" ideas[3] = "The probable is what usually happens. - Aristotle
" ideas[4] = "A frequentist uses impeccable logic to answer the wrong question, while a Bayesian answers the right question by making assumptions that nobody can fully believe in. - P. G. Hamer
" ideas[5] = "''I think you're begging the question,'' said Haydock, ''and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!'' - Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd
" ideas[6] = "It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge. - Laplace
" ideas[7] = "It turns out one way to make numbers less boring is to show more of them. - Edward Tufte
" ideas[8] = "Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly. - Christian Williams
" ideas[9] = "When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge of it is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced it to the stage of science. - Sir William Thompson, Lord Kelvin
" ideas[10] = "Inside every Non-Bayesian, there is a Bayesian struggling to get out. - Dennis V. Lindley
" ideas[11] = "In science...novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. - Thomas S. Kuhn
" ideas[12] = "A mathematical model is neither a hypothesis nor a theory. Unlike scientific hypotheses, a model is not verifiable directly by an experiment. For all models are both true and false.... The validation of a model is not that it is 'true' but that it generates good testable hypotheses relevant to important problems. - Richard Levins
" ideas[13] = "Science is advanced by people with a single-minded obsession with one or two ideas which they defend in the face of common sense and of the organized skepticism of the profession. - Jon Elster
" // The random number generator. function rand(n) { seed = (0x015a4e35 * seed) % 0x7fffffff; return (seed >> 16) % n; } var now = new Date() var seed = now.getTime() % 0xffffffff