Statistical Quotes

92 quotes by 86 authors

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical. — David Einhorn
And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data. — Paul Bloom
It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster. — Kerry Emanuel
Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement… — William Farr
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in… — Rudolph A. Marcus
We went through the records and we found over five hundred of his patients who were alive and well five years after their treatment, with… — Gary Null
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for… — William Golding
The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of The Spectator… — Clive James
I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk. — Gerd Gigerenzer
As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts… — Kenneth E. Boulding
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero. — Ilya Prigogine
I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the… — John M. Culkin
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether… — Austin Bradford Hill
Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. — Winston Smith
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and… — James Clerk Maxwell
The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction… — Hans Reichenbach
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to… — Jaron Lanier
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works… — Ian Hart
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life… — Ludwig von Mises

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