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Adolphe Quetelet
(22 Feb 1796 - 17 Feb 1874)
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Science Quotes by Adolphe Quetelet (5 quotes)
Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet
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L'homme moyen.
The average man.
The emergence of the concept.
The average man.
The emergence of the concept.
— Adolphe Quetelet
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.
— Adolphe Quetelet
The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.
— Adolphe Quetelet
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of center to which they all converge. We may even judge of the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.
— Adolphe Quetelet
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
— Adolphe Quetelet
See also:
- 22 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Quetelet's birth.