Best 232 quotes in «statistics quotes» category

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

Man is a tool-making animal

I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter of record that thousands of the victims of this superstitious rite have been saved from smallpox by the immunizing potency of death. But it is a fact that the official statistics of England and Wales show unmistakably that, while vaccination has killed ten times more people than smallpox, there has been a decrease in smallpox concomitant with the decrease in vaccination. . . It might be appropriately asked, in the words of the Vaccination Inquirer

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

Since when was genius found respectable?

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

Statistics are for losers.

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.

Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.

The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?