Statistics Quotes

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When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts. — Leslie Lamport
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. — Bert Lance
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking… — Steven Landsburg
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. — Guy Debord
Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or… — Rudolf Virchow
When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have… — Margaret Thatcher
Statistics in the hands of activists have power. — Ela Bhatt
The church has paid a terrible price for statistics! — Leonard Ravenhill
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the… — Major Owens
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and… — Peter Thiel
As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying… — Peter Lynch
Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning. — Chili Davis
Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base. — Jimmy Breslin
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men… — Ronald Fisher
The players are too serious. They don't have any fun any more. They come to camp with a financial adviser and they read the stock… — Rocky Bridges
Despite the dubious statistics â€¦ democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting. — Rory Stewart
One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself. — Philip J. Hanlon
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period… — David Berlinski
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of… — Richard Courant
The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete. — David Mumford

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