The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
“Statistics lie. They are designed to sway opinions. Take the time to keep yourself informed on things that matter.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. — Dizzy Dean Copy Share Image
I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and… — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
“We may at once admit that any inference from the particular to the general must be attended with some degree of uncertainty,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer. — Edmund Berkeley Copy Share Image
“Because there are 176 definitions for the word loser on urbandictionary.com. Don't Be a Statistic.” — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know. — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. — Robert M. Pirsig 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
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once,… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
A recent Pew Study revealed that 70% of Americans with a religious affiliation say that many religions lead to eternal life. Some… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The… — Kenneth A. Bollen Copy Share Image
We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say,… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
