Quotes by Statistics What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis. A. W. F. Edwards statisticsnullprejudice You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary. Abel Aganbegyan unanimitystatistics Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do. Adam Levine statisticsnormalpeople Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards. Alan Bennett statisticslittlesmight It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief. Alan Dean Foster statisticsbeliefreality History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities. Alan Greenspan probabilitystatistics If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth Alan K. Simpson statisticsinspirationallong In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. Alan Kay programcomputerstatistics I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues. Albert Einstein statisticstryingyears Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way. Albert Einstein statisticsexpressionart It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions. Albert Einstein intentionstatisticssay-anything If I can't picture it, I can't understand it. Albert Einstein statisticsmathscience By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. Albert Einstein statisticsdutytruth Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time. Albert Einstein sacrificestatisticsstupidity Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue. Aldous Huxley statisticsvirtueguarantees Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification. Aldous Huxley simplifystatisticsmen The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so Aleister Crowley statisticscustomerspay The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead simplicitystatisticsfacts 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. Andrew Carnegie incrediblesstatisticsfailing We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction. Aneurin Bevan pushingstatisticsopposites1234567891011»
