  I am presenting a first-ever scientific collection of short sayings on
probability and statistics expressed by most various men of science, many
classics included, from antiquity to Kepler to our time. Quite understandably,
the reader will find here no mathematical formulas and in some instances he
will miss a worthy subject. Markov chains provide a good example: their
inventor had not said anything about them suitable for my goal. Nevertheless,
the scope of the collected dictums is amazingly broad which reflects both the
discussions concerning the lack of a solid foundation of probability theory
until the 1930s and the great extent of applications of probability and
statistics. And I have also included two related and most important topics, the
treatment of observations and randomness.

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