Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

David Hockney

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Arthur Eddington

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Arthur Eddington

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Arthur C. Clarke

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Arthur C. Clarke

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Alan Kay

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Aristotle

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

Aristotle

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

Aristotle

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

Brian Kernighan

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

He was one of the most underrated sires in Australia. His statistics tell the story.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my methods. Apply them.

Art Buchwald

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Aldous Huxley

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Albert Einstein

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Douglas Adams

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Andrew Carnegie

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

Bertrand Russell

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

warranted by all of the statistics we have.

Stephen Jay Gould

No one-liner can ever be optimal.

Stephen Jay Gould

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Enough is enough. I think the voters are going to make Sanford an unemployment statistic in June.

Right now, we've got one in a row. I'm not really a statistics guy. I don't use a lot of that for motivation.

Erwin Schrodinger

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

George Bernard Shaw

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

Hippocrates

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

H. G. Wells

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....