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.

Samuel Johnson

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

Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Mitt Romney

I bathe in statistics.

Art Buchwald

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Aristotle

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

Enough is enough. I think the voters are going to make Sanford an unemployment statistic in June.

Stephen Jay Gould

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Douglas Adams

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Aldous Huxley

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Albert Einstein

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Robert Frost

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Stephen Hawking

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Ronald Fisher

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

Ronald Fisher

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Ronald Fisher

If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

Thomas Pynchon

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

Maurice Chevalier

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

John Ralston Saul

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

Michael Crichton

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Hippocrates

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

Erwin Schrodinger

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

George Bernard Shaw

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

Bertrand Russell

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

H. G. Wells

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

Horace

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Hannah Arendt

Every thought is an afterthought.

Ilka Chase

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

Ian Hacking

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.