Data Quote by Morris Kline Download Open image “Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.” — Morris Kline ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Data Ignorance Math Mathematical Statistics Theory
“The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“The calculation of ignorance is too great for any calculator, only someone who has experienced bliss and genuine ignorance can determine valid or not,… — Aaron Ozee Copy Share Image
Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things. — Ebbe Skovdahl Copy Share Image
[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis Copy Share Image
Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion.” — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“same phenomenon and concludes that the phenomenon will always occur. Conclusions obtained by induction seem well warranted” — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things. — Ebbe Skovdahl Copy Share Image
Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
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