Statistics Quotes - Page 17

• The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."

  John Dewey

  Luck, Degenerates, Doe

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.198, 谷月社

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• Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

  Philip K. Dick

  Stimulus

  "Time Out of Joint".

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• Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

  Philip K. Dick

  Trying, Sometimes, Disgrace

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hate, Ideas, Machines

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report”

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Happened

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Logic, Deck, Whole

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• Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Way, Ifs

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report”

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• It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

  Philip K. Dick

  Trying, Add, Goes On

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “Beyond Lies the Wub”

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• 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.

  Stephen Spender

  Effort, Ordinary, Hundred

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.151, Faber & Faber

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• The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Opposites, Different

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Science, Doe

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• All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

  George E. P. Box

  Science, Mind, Models

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons

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• My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

  Dave Hickey

  Mother, Math, Games

  "Surfing into the Sunset". Interview with Sarah Douglas, www.vanityfair.com. October 24, 2012.

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• With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Writing, School

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• The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.

  Steven Lopez

  Spiritual, Long, Done

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• What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Class, Political, Sides

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• No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

  Henry Adams

  Race, History, Extinction

  The Education of Henry Adams Vis Interiae (p. 447)

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• Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.

  Leonhard Euler

  Science, May, Causes

  Leonhard Euler (1955). “Commentationes mechanicae ad theoriam corporum fluidorum pertinentes 2nd part”, p.80, Springer Science & Business Media

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• A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Feelings, Intelligence

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• Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

  Ronald Fisher

  Math, Degrees, Natural

  "Evolution in Action". Book by Julian S. Huxley, 1953.

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• "I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wave, Counting

  This Side of Paradise (p. 244)

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• Man is a tool-making animal

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Men, Tools

  Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 7 Apr. 1778)

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• In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Insane, Behaviour, World

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No24 - The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith (1958)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2016.

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• There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Commitment, Math, Exercise

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