Best 232 quotes in «statistics quotes» category

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

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

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

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

Since when was genius found respectable?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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

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 search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

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

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

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

What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!