Statistics Quotes
- One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears… — J. Willard Gibbs
- Mathematics is a language — J. Willard Gibbs
- It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists. — William Gibson
- Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — W. S. Gilbert
- The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
- Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education. — William Godwin
- Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin
- The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. — William Godwin
- Nature has neither kernel Nor shell — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic. — Ellen Goodman
- If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. — Bill Gosper
- All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould
- Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics. — Stephen Jay Gould
- No one-liner can ever be optimal. — Stephen Jay Gould
- We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret. — Peter Greenaway
- What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life. — George Griffith
- GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions. — Douglas Gwyn
- The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard