For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics. — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible. — Jim Berger Copy Share Image
The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s,… — David Robertson Copy Share Image
“...when one considers that there are more than 750,000 police officers in the United States and that these officers have tens of… — David Klinger Copy Share Image
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Moneyball' doesn't have anything to do with on-base percentage or statistics. It's a constant investigation of stagnant systems, to see if you… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament. — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either… — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
I swear on my children's lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone's records. All I do… — Luis Suarez Copy Share Image
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find… — John Shaw Billings Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more… — Herman Chernoff Copy Share Image
The blockchain start-ups that have done ICOs are just at the beginning of something. Ask me how they are doing in a… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
“Why is your equation only for angels, Roger? Why can't we do something, down here? Couldn't there be an equation for us… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I think of 'data science' as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
