Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Arthur Eddington

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my methods. Apply them.

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.

Arthur C. Clarke

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Edmund Burke

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

Aristotle

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

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.'

Aristotle

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

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

warranted by all of the statistics we have.

Stephen Jay Gould

No one-liner can ever be optimal.

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.

Andrew Carnegie

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

Robert Frost

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

Rita Mae Brown

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Thomas Browne

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

Rudolf Arnheim

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

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 Szasz

'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.

Steven Wright

43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Thomas Pynchon

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Sigmund Freud

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Michael Faraday

Work, finish, publish.