Top 25 Statistics Quotes of 389 - Page 4

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

People, Mind, Statistics

Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

It's not what happened but how it is told.

Philip K. Dick

Statistics, Happened

Work, finish, publish.

Michael Faraday

Statistics, Publish

Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.942, IET

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Joseph Butler

Life, Statistics, Guides

'The Analogy of Religion' (1736) 'Introduction'

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Friedrich Engels

Views, Nomenclature, Statistics

The Wall will stand for a hundred years.

Erich Honecker

Wall, Years, Statistics

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Edward Gibbon

Science, Law, Statistics

Gibbon's Autobiography (p. 124)

No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.

Bernie Siegel

Statistics, Matter, Way

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

Lying, Misunderstood, Statistics

'The Varieties of Religious Experience' (1902) lectures 14 and 15, p. 355

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

W. Edwards Deming

Statistics, Action, Predictions

Journal of the American Statistical Association Quoted in W.A. Wallis' The Statistical Research Group, 1942-1945 Volume 75, Number 370, June 19 (p. 321)

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

Otto Neurath

Science, Statistics, Remember

Otto Neurath, Marie Neurath, Robert Sonné Cohen (1973). “Empiricism and sociology”

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Mind, Statistics, Coincidence

Twitter post from Jul 29, 2014

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

Leslie Lamport

Writing, Paper, Statistics

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

John W. Campbell

Statistics, Language, Trouble

The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.

David Mumford

Mind, World, Statistics

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

Bertrand Russell

Math, Littles, Statistics

Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.51, 谷月社