Statistics Quotes

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The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice. — Richard Bach
We know nothing until intuition agrees. — Richard Bach
Half of science is asking the right questions. — Roger Bacon
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to… — John C. Baez
Why speculate when you can calculate? — John C. Baez
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it! — Edwin Balmer
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things? — James M. Barrie
It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture. — Dave Barry
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos. — Eric Temple Bell
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without… — Eric Temple Bell
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — Eric Temple Bell
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. — Hilaire Belloc
It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie… — Hilaire Belloc
Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always… — Alan Bennett
The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible. — Jim Berger
Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer. — Edmund Berkeley
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity. — George Berkeley
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. — Bernard Berenson
Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult. — Don Berry
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. — Ambrose Bierce

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