Theodor Billroth quotes
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“Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like ***** to use as one pleases.”
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“Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed.”
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“It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.”
-- Theodor BillrothSource : The Medical Sciences in the German Universities Pt II
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“What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.”
Source : A. W. F. Edwards (1984). “Likelihood”, p.180, CUP Archive
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“Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.”
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“When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.”
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Source : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.
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