Famous quotes containing the words biased, random and/or walk:
“Scientists are human—they’re as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.”
—Cyril Ponnamperuma (b. 1923)
“Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as unity and worshipped as God. To this day, his attitude towards it has never changed, though science can no longer give to force a name.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)