I'm a massive football fan, so when Ladbrokes approached me and asked me to take a look at the statistics, I jumped… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli 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
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all. — Baron Annan Noel Annan 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
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
The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind. — James Pierpont Copy Share Image
If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics,… — Joe DiMaggio Copy Share Image
Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
It was the consideration of the multitude of souls which fall into the depths of Hell, because it is of faith that… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics, — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
“Dawes observed that the complex statistical algorithm adds little or no value. One can do just as well by selecting a set… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
My experience of working on this show, even though there is so much about sex and sexuality, and we find out a… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. — Irving R. Levine Copy Share Image
“Also, even if technocrats provide reasonable estimates of a risk, which itself is an iffy enterprise, they cannot dictate what level of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image