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
The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment. — Peter Kenyon Copy Share Image
As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since… — Udny Yule Copy Share Image
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
“The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 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
Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S? — Harold Reynolds Copy Share Image
Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals. — Peter Armitage Copy Share Image
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
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
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“This book is an essay in what is derogatorily called "literary economics," as opposed to mathematical economics, econometrics, or (embracing them both)… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life. — George Griffith Copy Share Image
You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I live by statistics, so if look at U.S. Census statistics regarding families making over $100,000 dollars a year, 93% of them… — David L. Cohen Copy Share Image