The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

No matter how much we enjoy following the lives of the rich and famous, we know the world is affected more deeply by quiet, even invisible acts of integrity, kindness, and generosity, than by fame and fortune.

The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.