Quotes by Statistics The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice. Richard Bach statisticschoicesway Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. Richard Bach statisticstruthinspirational In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it. I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics. Richard Branson statisticsmindpeople It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions. Richard P. Feynman existencestatisticsmind Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. Ralph Waldo Emerson statisticsopinion One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. Rita Mae Brown statisticswifefound Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. Rita Mae Brown quartersstatisticsliterature One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. Ralph Waldo Emerson bandagesfagotsstatistics By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen. Robert A. Heinlein statisticslawpeople A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it. Robert Daniel Carmichael obviousstatisticsmath You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert Frost outsidersdignitystatistics Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic Robert Kennedy statisticsmenscience The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. Robert M. Pirsig statisticspersonalityflesh You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. Robert Solow computerstatisticsage Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics. Robert Solow computerstatisticsgrowth 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. Roger Ascham bentstatisticsworld 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. Ronald Fisher groupsstatisticscauses ... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation. Ronald Fisher interpretationproceduresstatistics Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. Ronald Fisher degreesstatisticsmath Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. Rudolf Arnheim graspingdetailsstatistics«1112131415161718192021»
