For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind.


Jan Tinbergen. "The necessity of quantitative social research." Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1973): 141-148.

Jan Tinbergen Quotes

For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind.

For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind.

For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind.

For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind.