Parting Thoughts

Linda Pursley, Director of Assessment and Institutional Research at Lesley University (lpursley@lesley.edu) kindly shared the following quotes from her bulletin board:

    Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
    ~ John Tukey (1915–2000), American statistician

    Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
    ~ Henry Clay (1777-1852), American statesman and orator

    To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
    ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Spanish philosopher and humanist

Thanks for sending along these quotes, Linda! Reader contributions of Parting Thoughts are most welcome. Send them to Marne Einarson (mke3@cornell.edu).