Edwin Thompson Jaynes quotes

The semiliterate on the next bar stool will tell you with absolute, arrogant assurance just how to solve the world's problems; while the scholar who has spent a lifetime studying their causes is not at all sure how to do this. (Edwin Thompson Jaynes)
It appears to be a quite general principle that, whenever there is a randomized way of doing something, then there is a nonrandomized way that delivers better performance but requires more thought. View quote
Edwin Thompson Jaynes

Edwin Thompson Jaynes

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Occupation: American Physicist
Born: July 5, 1922
Died: April 30, 1998
Quotes count: 2
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