Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The performance of your position coaches is obviously more than just the actual statistics of how their players perform. There's insight from… — Mike McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical… — Stephen Senn Copy Share Image
I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could… — John M. Culkin Copy Share Image
The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it… — Steven Lopez Copy Share Image
If you look at the single-payer systems, like Scandinavia, Canada, and elsewhere, they can get costs down because, you know, although their… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small… — Vann Chow Copy Share Image
I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are… — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
“Amending the ‘data’, or rejecting some as erroneous, is a frequent concomitant of scientific discovery, and the crucial ‘data’ cannot even be… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn't even think about my weight… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics.… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
“That so far the material has been dealt with in a rather subjective way provokes the question whether a means can be… — Jennifer K. McArthur Copy Share Image
Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
What helped a lot was becoming a dad at 47. I can't begin to imagine how I would have coped when I… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
In Chicagoland, they had afternoon 'Jeopardy!' and afternoon Cubs games when they were at home, so that was basically what I would… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
The players are too serious. They don't have any fun any more. They come to camp with a financial adviser and they… — Rocky Bridges Copy Share Image
We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are… — Eva Burrows Copy Share Image
Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male… — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Copy Share Image
If, as statistics suggest, millennials' diets are more plant-based than ever, and we continue to bring up our kids to eat less… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes Copy Share Image
Gethin Jenkins is one of the best loose-head props in the world. He hits up to 40 rucks a game, makes at… — Warren Gatland Copy Share Image
Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
![“That so far the material has been dealt with in a rather subjective way provokes the question whether a means can be found of handling it objectively. [...] This chapter considers the applicability of the statistical tests employed by Wilson and the general problem whether the Linear B data are…” quote by Jennifer K. McArthur](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a76/jennifer-k-mcarthur-57498_decipherment_that-so-far-the-material-has-been-dealt_2073765.jpg)
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