Quantities which are called errors in one case, may really be most important and interesting phenomena in another investigation. When we speak of eliminating error we really mean disentangling the complicated phenomena of nature.


The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, Book III, Chapter XV (p. 339), Macmillan & Company Ltd. 1887

William Stanley Jevons Quotes

Quantities which are called errors in one case, may really be most important and interesting phenomena in another investigation. When we speak of...

Quantities which are called errors in one case, may really be most important and interesting phenomena in another investigation. When we speak of...

Quantities which are called errors in one case, may really be most important and interesting phenomena in another investigation. When we speak of...

Quantities which are called errors in one case, may really be most important and interesting phenomena in another investigation. When we speak of...