For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%. — Andrew Hogue Copy Share Image
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target. — Homer Burton Adkins Copy Share Image
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. — Poul Anderson 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
I had games where I had better statistics than others, but it wasn't because I wasn't playing hard. — Julius Peppers 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
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
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
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
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
I think of 'data science' as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order… — Lauren Stamile Copy Share Image
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair Copy Share Image
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance. — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
Obviously a lot of people will look at numbers, I think numbers can sway both ways. I think they can show too… — Jordy Nelson Copy Share Image
A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him". — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting. — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like… — A. J. Buckley Copy Share Image
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out… — John Novak Copy Share Image
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it… — William James Copy Share Image
According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know… — Morey Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
