Social physics never can pretend to discover laws which will verify themselves in every particular, in the case of isolated individuals. The science will have rendered a service sufficiently vast, in giving more precise views upon a host of points, of which vague glimpses only were before possessed.

— Adolphe Quetelet A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)

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