Salvador de Madariaga Quote

Statistics only work well when they dwell on large numbers of absolutely free motions, or what has been described as "perfect disorder." If an element of deliberate direction, of conscious "order", meddles with their utter "innocence", the facts in question cease to follow statistical laws.


Essays with a Purpose, Freedom and Science (p. 50), Hollis & Carter. 1954


Statistics only work well when they dwell on large numbers of absolutely free motions, or what has been described as perfect disorder. If an element...

Statistics only work well when they dwell on large numbers of absolutely free motions, or what has been described as perfect disorder. If an element...

Statistics only work well when they dwell on large numbers of absolutely free motions, or what has been described as perfect disorder. If an element...

Statistics only work well when they dwell on large numbers of absolutely free motions, or what has been described as perfect disorder. If an element...