Absolute truth Quote by Hannah Fry

I'm a pollster by trade, so I'm into things that are actually quantifiable.

— Kellyanne Conway

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

— George Canning

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really,…

— Freeman Dyson

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be…

— Abraham Robinson

I seek out people that are experts in their fields and see how I compare with them and if I can hold my own.

— Liz Carmouche

I think I'm statistically literate and numbers-oriented. But I'm nowhere near as sophisticated as a lot of other folks I see. Maybe that helps…

— Steve Kornacki

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge…

— Henri Poincare

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

— Bertrand Russell

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good…

— Steven G. Krantz

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

— Anonymous

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar