Tesseract comments on Rationality Quotes: December 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tesseract 03 December 2010 09:21:13AM 50 points [-]

He uses statistics as a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support, not for illumination.

G.K. Chesterton

Comment author: Tesseract 11 August 2011 08:12:56PM 2 points [-]

Correction: This quote is usually attributed to Andrew Lang. Not sure how I got that wrong.