David Blackwell Quotes

David Harold Blackwell was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem.

Birth: April 24, 1919 - Death: July 08, 2010

I’ve worked in so many areas — I’m sort of a dilettante. Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been.

Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been… I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.

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David Blackwell Quotes