Statistics Quotes
674 quotes by 454 authors
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Everything tries to be round.
— Black Elk
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The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that…
— Edward Mills Purcell
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Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of…
— Unknown Author
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Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.
— Bertrand Russell
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Statistics are there to be broken.
— Chris Kamara
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Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
— Morris Kline
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Probability is the very guide of life.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.
— Paul Brodeur
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The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
— William Fogg Osgood
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Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
— Unknown Author
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With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product…
— Richard Courant
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The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.
— Keith Devlin
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It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with…
— William Stanley Jevons
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The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.
— David Berlinski
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Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.
— Bill Cosby
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"I see it, but I don't believe it."
— Richard Dedekind
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Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.
— Norman Cousins
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God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
— Bertrand Russell
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If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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