John Tukey
John Tukey
John Wilder Tukey ForMemRSwas an American mathematician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
John Tukey quotes about
science answers problem
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
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In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.
Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.