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No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

— Samuel Johnson

How is an error possible in mathematics?

— Henri Poincare

How is error possible in mathematics?

— Henri Poincare

“The mathematical economists have commonly been mathematicians first and economists afterward, disposed to oversimplify the data and underestimate the divergence between their premises and…

— Frank H. Knight

“Inaccurate estimates are a failure of information, not of values or principles. If the numbers are wrong, fix the numbers and communicate the consequences.”

— Kent Beck

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that…

— Amos Tversky

“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.…

— Eric Temple Bell

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

— George Bernard Shaw

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

— Anonymous

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

— Pablo Picasso

There's barely any aspect of our modern lives that hasn't had a mathematical contribution at some point and yet, if you asked the average…

— Hannah Fry