an inevitable quantitative inferiority easily looks like a qualitative weakness
if you torture the data enough, nature will always confess
I rarely comment explicitly on the merits of an article, but ‘EV 4, 1234’ indicates a piece less good than ‘EV 4, 1234 (Pecorino)’
tardi ingeni est rivulos consectari, fontes rerum non videre
An employee cannot have too much information
I had no idea of industry and diligence till I saw Bekker’s collations. There is scarcely an author in Greek who he has not collated with MSS
Younger scientists in particular lose sight of the difference between reality and simulation … They have grown up with the models
analytic induction ends where enumerative induction begins; and if well conducted, leaves no real and soluble problems for the latter
No matter how early one starts, and how much work is put in, pitchbooks nearly always involve all-nighters just before the meeting
not strikingly bad on each occasion, but cumulatively spoils a writer’s style