Statistics Quotes - Page 9

There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.

The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

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.

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.