Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erwin Schrodinger

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

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.

H. G. Wells

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

Milton Friedman

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

Milton Friedman

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

Ilka Chase

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

Ian Hacking

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

Paul Harvey

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.

Mitt Romney

I bathe in statistics.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Probability is the very guide of life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Michael Crichton

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Keith Waterhouse

Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

Omar Khayyam

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

Michael Faraday

Work, finish, publish.

Henry A. Kissinger

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

John Ralston Saul

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

John Dee

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

Lawrence Kasdan

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Lady Gaga

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

John Maynard Keynes

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

Lord Byron

Who then will explain the explanation?

Lord Byron

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

Maurice Chevalier

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

Umberto Eco

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

Quentin Crisp

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

Robert Frost

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Rita Mae Brown

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Thomas Browne

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

Richard Courant

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