What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There's no handbook to parenting, there's just opinions and statistics. — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions. — Douglas Gwyn Copy Share Image
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate -… — Will Self Copy Share Image
In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
I noticed one thing. According to the ABA statistics, only 3.5 percent of lawyers in America in 2000 were Hispanic, yet they… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
“In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don't utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the… — Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea 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
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of… — William James Copy Share Image
The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“The state office for statistics on Hans-Beimler street counts everything; knows everything: how many pairs of shoes I buy a year: 2.3,… — Georg Dreyman Copy Share Image
We need a more holistic approach in which we take account of society's most vulnerable sectors. We shouldn't just do broad averaging… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics. — Victoria Azarenka Copy Share Image
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about. — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
