Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

Roger Ascham

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

William Godwin

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.

Keith Waterhouse

Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.

Henry A. Kissinger

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Omar Khayyam

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

Karl Pearson

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Joan Didion

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

Stephen King

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

Horace

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.