The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link. — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie. — George W. Buck Copy Share Image
Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts. — Leslie Lamport Copy Share Image
I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word. — William Fogg Osgood 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered… — Mary Elizabeth Lease 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
“Statistics became what it still is today: a form of political rhetoric. The categories that statisticians had to develop were reified in… — Jürgen Osterhammel Copy Share Image
“The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden (To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising… — Jennifer K. McArthur 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
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