In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is… - Dennis Lindley

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In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation.

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Dennis Victor Lindley (July 25, 1923 – December 14, 2013) was a British statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.

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