Statistical Quotes
92 quotes by 86 authors
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
— Josh Billings
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There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical…
— Werner Heisenberg
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I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method…
— Alfred Binet
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The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.
— James Wolfensohn
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The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or just an average, sometimes the…
— Des MacHale
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Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or…
— Robert Fogel
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...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious…
— Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod
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Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time…
— Karl Marx
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Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces…
— James A. Garfield
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I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the…
— Anatoly Karpov
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Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are…
— J. H. Plumb
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Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.
— Edward Tufte
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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
— H.G. Wells
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The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.
— Hubert M. Blalock
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A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some…
— Morris H. DeGroot
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My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call…
— Claude Shannon
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the…
— Stephen Leacock
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But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and…
— Peter Thiel
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