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nils
2025-08-21T16:33:51.760Z
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I was asked about the "theory vs. applied-ness" aspect of our course. This leads me to dig up this, from what we write in the preface of Tore Schweder & Nils Lid Hjort CLP book, "Confidence, Likelihood, Probability" (Cambridge, 2016). I think it applies here, to the stk4021 course, and several others we teach at our Statistics and Data Science section. So I post it here (and ja, read more Goethe).

Epilogue

To round off our preface we feel an apt quotation for our project is the classic "Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, und grün des Lebens goldner Baum" ("All theory is grey, dear friend, and green the golden tree of life"). This is indeed an often-quoted and sweet-sounding sentiment -- but perhaps by people not quite realising that this was Mephistopheles' diabolic advice, in reality not expressing Goethe's opinion. The spirit underlying our book is that green and golden applications rest on solid theory, and th...