Statistics Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  Roger Ascham

  World, Bent

  Roger Ascham (1870). “The Scholemaster”, p.34

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• Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

  Peter Armitage

  Data, Discipline, Groups

  Peter Armitage, Geoffrey Berry, J. N. S. Matthews (2013). “Statistical Methods in Medical Research”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

  Albert Einstein

  New York, Cat, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

  James A. Garfield

  Science, Government, Law

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.455, Best Books on

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• According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Numbers, Adults, United States

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.49, 谷月社

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• Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.

  Chris Mooney

  Science, Weather, Climate

  "Dear Donald Trump: Winter Does Not Disprove Global Warming" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. January 02, 2014.

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Genius, Firsts

  History of Frederick the Great bk. 4, ch. 3 (1858 - 1865).

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• A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Witty, Math, Science

  Chartism ch. 2 (1839) See Disraeli 38

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• Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.This is not one of those memoirs.

  Kate Madison

  Recovery, Reflection, Addiction

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• You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

  Elias Canetti

  Names, Magic, Dangerous

  Elias Canetti (1964). “Auto-da-fé”, New York : Stein and Day

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• Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Lines, Pages

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Numbers, Excellence, Quality

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Facts speak louder than statistics.

  Geoffrey Streatfeild

  Science, Facts, Speak

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• No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.

  Fredric Brown

  Stills

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• The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Beauty, Art, Discovery

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• I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

  Georges Braque

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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

  Stewart Brand

  Dark, Age, 1960s

  Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.92, Basic Books

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• How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

  Ernest Bramah

  Fighting, Grace, Balance

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.527, e-artnow

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• In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!

  Steven Pinker

  School, College, Intuition

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• If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Stars, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

  Aristotle

  Assuming, Found, Unlimited

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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• Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

  Aristotle

  Events, Should, Probability

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

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• The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

  David Knopfler

  Challenges, Needs, Truth Is

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• The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.

  David Hilbert

  Math, Science, Doe

  "Mathematical Problems". Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris, translated by Maby Winton Newson, mathcs.clarku.edu. 1900.

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• Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

  Charles Dickens

  Hard Times, Want, Facts

  Hard Times bk. 1, ch. 1 (1854)

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