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The most commonly occurring weakness in the application of Fisherian methods is, I think, undue emphasis on tests of significance, and failure to recognize that in many types of experimental work, estimates of the treatment effects, together with estimates of the error to which they are subject, are the quantities of primary interest.

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Is not all science a gnosis, an insight into the nature of the All, which proceeds by successive revelations?

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Frances Yates

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Born: November 28, 1899
Died: September 29, 1981 (aged 81)
Bio: Dame Frances Amelia Yates, DBE, FBA was an English historian who focused on the study of the Renaissance. In an academic capacity, she taught at the Warburg Institute of the University of London for many years, and also wrote a number of books on the subject of esoteric history.
Known for:
  1. The Art of Memory (1966)
  2. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964)
  3. The Rosicrucian enlightenment (1972)
  4. The occult philosophy in the Elizabethan age (1979)
  5. Theatre of the world (1969)

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