Advantage Quote by Alexander von Humboldt

It's interesting to see people's projections because one lives very much in the world of projections.

— Tenzin Palmo

“Part 2 updates the study of judgment heuristics and explores a major puzzle: Why is it so difficult for us to think statistically? We…

— Daniel Kahneman

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar

“It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

— Bergen Evans

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

— Jean Baudrillard

Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

— Gary W. Keller

“The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded—and retained.”

— John Medina

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

“Observations are determined by the ability to fully perceive actually what exists rather that what is believed or desired to be real.”

— Steven Redhead