Quote of the day
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
A. W. F. Edwards
Born: October 4, 1935 (age 90)
Bio: Anthony William Fairbank Edwards is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist, sometimes called "Fisher's Edwards" because he was mentored by Ronald Fisher.
Known for:
- Cogwheels of the Mind (2004)
- Pascal's arithmetical triangle (1987)
- Foundations of mathematical genetics (1977)
- Nashville Interiors, 1866 to 1922 (1999)
- Likelihood (1972)







