The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't focus much about the statistics of goals and assists. I always want to improve, but I'm not worried about… — David Silva Copy Share Image
It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once,… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The… — Kenneth A. Bollen Copy Share Image
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to… — Red Holzman Copy Share Image
In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, "Littlewood's Miscellany."… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
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