Statistics Quotes - Page 13

We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.

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

No one-liner can ever be optimal.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

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

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

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

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

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

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.