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I do not want to defend the occult sciences; I am, however, convinced that further unbiased investigation of these phenomena by collection and evaluation of old and new evidence, in the usual scientific manner, will lead us sooner or later to the discovery of new and important relations of which we have as yet no knowledge, but which are natural phenomena in the usual sense.
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In games of chance, in the problems of insurance, and in the molecular processes we find events repeating themselves again and again. They are mass phenomena or repetitive events.
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Mass phenomena to which the theory of probability does not apply are, of course, of common occurrence.
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The main interest of physical statistics lies in fact not so much in the distribution of the phenomena in space, but rather in their succession in time.
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Born:
April 19, 1883
Died:
July 14, 1953
(aged 70)
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