Quote of the Day - 19 December 2006

My statistics class took up a great deal of time this semester, so this quote seems particularly appropriate:

No study is less alluring or more dry and tedious than statistics, unless the mind and imagination are se to work, or that the person studying is particularly interested in the subject; which last can seldom be the case with young men in any rank of life.

--William Playfair

(found in The Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations)

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