Statistics Quotes - Page 11

Luck is statistics taken personally.

Who then will explain the explanation?

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

Statistics are designed to keep you safe.

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.

Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.

You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

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

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.

To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.