Statistics Quotes
674 quotes by 454 authors
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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Training was one thing, reality another.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
— Hal Clement
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Some things are to hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
— Hal Clement
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Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.
— Arthur Hugh Clough
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Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Rotten wood cannot be carved.
— Confucius
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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
— Unknown Author
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Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
— Michael Crichton
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of…
— Francis Crick
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
— Quentin Crisp
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
— E E Cummings
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Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.
— Unknown Author
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Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.
— Philip J. Davis
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In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with…
— Philip J. Davis
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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
— Humphry Davy
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A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.
— John Dee
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