A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given… — William James Copy Share Image
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by… — Hilaire Belloc 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
If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them,… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it… — Daniel Libeskind 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
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
Crib death was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in the statistics, but it started to… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add… — John Dewey 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 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
Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their… — Fred Reichheld Copy Share Image
Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had… — Bill Gates 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
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