From krcoombes at mdacc.tmc.edu  Wed Jun 24 15:46:11 2009
From: krcoombes at mdacc.tmc.edu (Kevin R. Coombes)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:46:11 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Quotations (was Re:  V2.9.0 changes [Sec=Unclassified])
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Also attributed (incorrectly) to both Yogi Berra and Mark Twain.  The 
Twain attribution leads (because he published numerous essays and short 
stories in The Galaxy magazine) to one possible (and documentable) source:

   "[I]f we found a character in a novel represented as habitually
    uttering true predictions of the future, we should cry out at once
    against the improbability."
       ? Charles Astor Bristed (aka Carl Benson), Casual Cogitations,
          The Galaxy, 1873; 16:196?201.



Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Martin Maechler wrote:
>   
>> But then, as professional statisticians, we should consider the
>> famous
>>    >>> Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future <<
>> attributed to Physics Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr.
>>     
>
> ...and quotations are even more difficult!
>
> A number of people are known NOT to be the source of that one, including
> Bohr, Robert Storm Petersen, and former minister of culture Steincke (in
> his memoirs, he mentions it being used in parliament some time during
> 1935--1939, but he forgot by whom). One source has "Markus M. Ronner,
> and others" (he was born in 1938, though!)
>
>



[Rd] Quotations (was Re: V2.9.0 changes [Sec=Unclassified])
Kevin R. Coombes