Robert Simpson Woodward Quote

It is a curious circumstance that a science so profoundly mathematical as the theory of probability should have originated in the games of chance which occupy the thoughtless and the profligate.


Probability and Theory of Errors (4th edition), Introduction (p. 7)


It is a curious circumstance that a science so profoundly mathematical as the theory of probability should have originated in the games of chance...

It is a curious circumstance that a science so profoundly mathematical as the theory of probability should have originated in the games of chance...

It is a curious circumstance that a science so profoundly mathematical as the theory of probability should have originated in the games of chance...

It is a curious circumstance that a science so profoundly mathematical as the theory of probability should have originated in the games of chance...