"Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe……" — Nate Silver

"Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him."

— Nate Silver

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75 Quotes by Nate Silver

Nate Silver has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold…
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's…
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot…
Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the…
The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very…
One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that…
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and…
We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after…
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

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More Applied Quotes

This quote is filed under Applied Quotes, one of 590 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I… — Michele Bachmann
Theology is a science of mind applied to God. — Henry Ward Beecher
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right… — Miguel de Cervantes
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. — Stuart Chase
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Theology is only thought applied to religion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and… — Meg Whitman
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. — George S. Patton
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not… — Unknown Author

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