Friday, 22 April 2016

"Security is mostly a superstition. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." – Helen Keller

"Security is mostly a superstition. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." – Helen Keller

OCCAM VS HICKAM

Hickam’s Dictum or the Anti-razor?

  • A patient can have as many diseases as they damn well please.
  • Occam’s razor can be paraphrased ‘when investigating a patient with multiple symptoms, a single unifying diagnosis should be sought’ Hickam’s Dictum was a response when one single unifying diagnosis is not possible. Dr John Hickam was a faculty member at Duke University in the 1950s.

BOHR

Predictions are very difficult