The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.
Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is in some doubt.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.
Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
No one-liner can ever be optimal.
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as healthy as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don't let the statistics that someone else created affect you.
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
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.
Whenever you can, count.
Luck is statistics taken personally.
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