Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.' When I was in the… — Angela Featherstone Copy Share Image
In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims… — Gethin Jones Copy Share Image
There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
Obsessing about statistics won't make you a better poker player. In fact, you'll end up wasting too much valuable time on that… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method,… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
People are looking a lot at statistics and all these things, but in the end, I don't really care. If we can… — Kevin De Bruyne Copy Share Image
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in… — Morris H. DeGroot Copy Share Image
A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking… — Jefferson Han Copy Share Image
I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
I saw the first one [video with Hans Rosling ] when he did - I think it was his first one -… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Statistics are rarely meaningful in and of themselves. Statistics will, and should, almost always be used to illustrate a relationship. It’s more… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try… — Marc Racicot Copy Share Image
I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is… — William Ernest Bowman Copy Share Image
There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
The world view of the underdog socialist is encapsulated in the notion that the establishment has mastered the game of reason, judgment… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the greatest… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
I was always really into the facts and figures and the statistics about nature and I always loved learning about it and… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
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