"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics". — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight. — Lloyd Copy Share Image
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are games where the striker will be useful for the team in terms of creating space and being involved in the… — Alexandre Lacazette Copy Share Image
In football, statistically, there's an under-representation from the BAME community in dugouts, boardrooms and coaching roles. The claim is that systemic racism… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are… — Herb Gray 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 the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the… — Aristotle 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
The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Crib death was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in the statistics, but it started to… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Just providing information about how bad things are, or the statistics and data on incarceration by themselves, does lead to more depression… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“While most of us are comfortable acknowledging that luck plays a role in what we do, we have difficulty assessing its role… — Michael J. Mauboussin Copy Share Image
If you look at the statistics of fratricide or intra-sibling homicide, it's extremely rare. And look at Burke [Ramsey] and JonBenet at… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
“You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“The mind is more comfortable in reckoning probabilities in terms of the relative frequency of remembered or imagined events. That can make… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image