Statistics Quotes

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A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke… — Danny Hillis
When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances… — Hippocrates
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters. — Hippocrates
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors. — David Hockney
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested. — August Wilhelm von Hofmann
The Wall will stand for a hundred years. — Erich Honecker
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. — Robert Hooke
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible. — Fred Hoyle
In real life there is no such thing as the average man. — Aldous Huxley
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue. — Aldous Huxley
Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification. — Aldous Huxley
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. — Thomas Huxley
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. — George Iles
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important. — William Ralph Inge
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive… — Francois Jacob
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donnÂ´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. — Henry James
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the… — William James
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific… — William James
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to… — William James

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