Statistical Quotes

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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins
It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any… — Richard Dawkins
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task… — Lawrence Eagleburger
I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. — Christopher Hitchens
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. — Steven Pinker
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an… — Will Self
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion'… — Nate Silver
You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example,… — Nate Silver
Sanity is not statistical. — George Orwell
The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear. — Samuel R. Delany
Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars,… — KatÃ³ Lomb
Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including… — Michael Crichton
The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with… — Isaac Asimov
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and… — Frank Zappa
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by… — Wendell Berry
It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost all dogs don't… — Terry Pratchett
Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. — George Orwell
His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love,… — Robert Musil
It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example,… — Marvin Minsky
Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died… — David Goodstein

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