quotes about Estimating
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The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
Estimating is what you do when you don't know.
-- Sherman KentSource : "Estimates and Influence," Foreign Service Journal (April 1969).
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When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.
-- Thomas J. Sargent -
If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.
-- William Wilberforce -