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The Greeks, says Mr. Galton, if they had known of the law of errors [the precision of the mean of a large number of observations], would have personified and deified it; the moderns should at least respect it as the most universal law of nature.

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Our reasoning appears to become more accurate as our ignorance becomes more complete; that when we have embarked upon chaos we seem to drop down into a cosmos.

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

The Calculus of Probabilities is an instrument which requires the living hand to direct it.

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Statistics reigns and revels in the very heart of Physics.

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

However we define error, the idea of calculating its extent may appear paradoxical. A science of errors seems a contradiction in terms.

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Probability may be described, agreeably to general usage, as importing partial incomplete belief.

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

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Born: February 8, 1845

Died: February 13, 1926 (aged 81)

Bio: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward he was appointed the founding editor of The Economic Journal.

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