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

  Ann Coulter

  Religious, Tone, Arguing

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.2, Crown Forum

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• My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Humorous, Profound, Insane

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• You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

  Robert Solow

  Age, Computer, Productivity

  "The benefits of internet innovation are hard to spot in GDP statistics" by Joseph Stiglitz, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2014.

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• The religion of one seems madness unto another.

  Thomas Browne

  Madness, Seems

  Sir Thomas Browne (1658). “Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths”

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• A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

  Robert Daniel Carmichael

  Math, Obvious, Mathematics

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• 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.

  Morris H. DeGroot

  Data, Problem, Inference

  Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish (2002). “Probability and Statistics”, Addison Wesley

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• Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

  Lester del Rey

  Sin, Misinterpretation, Humans

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• Well, of course, all of the statistics say there are fewer eligible black men in my circle. But I've never thought of it that way. I believe that if the right person came into my life that would have been terrific.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Men, Circles

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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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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• Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

  James A. Garfield

  Ignorance, Dark, Light

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.453, Best Books on

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• We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Differences, Making A Difference

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics.

  Philip J. Davis

  Ideas, Study, Mathematics

  Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.441, Springer Science & Business Media

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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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• Training was one thing, reality another.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Reality, Training, One Thing

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Rendezvous With Rama”, p.199, RosettaBooks

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• The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.

  Israel Nathan Herstein

  Teaching, Math, Ideas

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• That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Broken, Mind, Teeth

  "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: A Meeting with Medusa".

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Happened

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• Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Thinking

  "On the Constitution of the Church and State".

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• If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them.

  Keith Ellison

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

  Humphry Davy

  Thinking, Language, Instruments

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• Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

  Philip J. Davis

  Sunday, Typical, Weekdays

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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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• All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

  e. e. cummings

  Ignorance, Knows

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.102, Grove Press

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• To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Praise, Natural

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• In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

  Francis Crick

  Strong, Reading, Math

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