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There is no free hunch.
Robert P. Abelson (1928 - 2005)
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Dalberg-Acton (1834 - 1902)
...the most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
Douglas Noel Adams (1952 - 2001)
Amidst the strange vicissitudes of life, 'tis likely, most unlikely things should happen.
Agathon (448 BCE - 400 BCE)
Statistics are the food of love.
Roger Angell (1920 - )
… scientists … resist … making more of the data than the data make of themselves.
Natalie Angier (1958 - )
Hypotheses, like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.
Henry Edward Armstrong (1848 - 1937)
... we must remember that measures were made for man and not man for measures.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Are no probabilities to be accepted, merely because they are not certainties?
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871)