Quotes about statistics
statistics world bent
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world. Roger Ascham
statistics poet individual
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species. Samuel Johnson
statistics demonstration should
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! William Blake
statistics ratios reason
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
statistics poetic moments
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
statistics elements logic
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. William Godwin
statistics procedures interpretation
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation. Ronald Fisher
statistics degrees natural
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
statistics causes steps
If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.
statistics language frank
We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages. Peter Cook
statistics opinion
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
statistics used type
The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.
statistics clients investing
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it. Thomas Szasz
statistics spots made
43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot. Steven Wright
statistics doe mathematical-models
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Stephen Hawking
statistics belief unbelief
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. Sigmund Freud
statistics details grasping
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. Rudolf Arnheim
statistics enough hypothesis
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough. William James
statistics matter ifs
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists. William Gibson