Stanley Smith Stevens quotes

“The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.”
-- Stanley Smith Stevens

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“The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.”
-- Stanley Smith Stevens

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“A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.”
-- Stanley Smith Stevens

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“Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.”

“The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so”

“Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.”

“Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

“I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.”

“A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.”

“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

“I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.”

“I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.”

“There are two types of stories: public and private.”