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"Well facts are facts" said Tilly sulkily. "So they are, and figures are figures. Stop subtracting the date and get with it."

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Organic chemist!" said Tilley expressively. "Probably knows no statistics whatever."

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Am I supposed to give all the facts, or some of the facts, or my opinions or your opinions or what?

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"You know those penetration figures?" "Mm." "Well, there's a positive correlation between penetration and the height of the man firing." "Easy," I said. "The taller the man, the more rarefied the atmosphere and the less the air resistance."

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He divided people into statisticians, people who knew about statistics, and people who didn't. He liked the middle group best. He didn't like the real statisticians much because they argued with him, and he thought people who didn't know any statistics were just animal life.

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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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Nigel Balchin

Nigel Balchin
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Born: December 3, 1908
Died: May 17, 1970 (aged 61)
Bio: Nigel Balchin was an English novelist and screenwriter particularly known for his novels written during and immediately after World War II: Darkness Falls from the Air, The Small Back Room and Mine Own Executioner.
Known for:
  1. Darkness falls from the air (1942)
  2. The Small Back Room (1943)
  3. A way through the wood (1951)
  4. The anatomy of villainy (1950)
  5. Separate Lies

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