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Lord Kelvin on quantification and scientific knowledge
Being annoyed by some of the usual qualitative drivel masquerading as science (see almost any tweet by @RealPeerReview), I was moved to make a nice background/poster.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Thomson

A slide from some anthropologist said of Galton that he "Worshipped at the alter of quantification". That's a nice way to put it!