Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head? — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word. — William Fogg Osgood Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and… — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In football, statistically, there's an under-representation from the BAME community in dugouts, boardrooms and coaching roles. The claim is that systemic racism… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
There are games where the striker will be useful for the team in terms of creating space and being involved in the… — Alexandre Lacazette Copy Share Image
The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are… — Herb Gray Copy Share Image
The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
“Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of… — William Sealy Gosset Copy Share Image
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We need a more holistic approach in which we take account of society's most vulnerable sectors. We shouldn't just do broad averaging… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
