Statistics Quotes

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After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as… — Isaac Asimov
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. — Richard Courant
There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and… — Robert Eastaway
Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and… — David Korten
In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to… — John Allen Paulos
The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link. — Josiah Stamp
There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology. — Gian-Carlo Rota
I donâ€™t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus. — Ben Horowitz
In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses… — Donald Kagan
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions… — Molly Ivins
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. — Alphonse Allais
Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written… — Jeffrey Gitomer
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics,… — Seymour Papert
Statistics are for losers. — Scotty Bowman
Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen… — Eric Butterworth
You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics… — Marc Racicot
It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the… — Hjalmar Schacht
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids… — Robert Sternberg
Statistics is the grammar of science. — Karl Pearson
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like… — Bill James

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