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When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge of it is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced it to the stage of science.
— Sir William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
— Dr Watson, the author, addressing Doyle, the author, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"
Some great classic computer vision books are available at http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/, Ballard and Brown's Computer Vision Computer Vision, 1982; Batchelor and Whelan's Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry, 1997; Fisher's From Surface To Objects: Computer Vision and Three Dimensional Scene Analysis, 1989; and Jain and Dubes' Algorithms for Clustering Data, 1988.
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