Statistics Quotes - Page 24

• Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Shells, Kernel

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1957). “Poems of Goethe: a sequel to Goethe, the lyrist”

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• It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Math, World, Figures

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• She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

  Ellen Goodman

  Prejudice

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• If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

  Bill Gosper

  Errors, Pigs, Independence

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• GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.

  Douglas Gwyn

  Simple, Action, Impossible

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

  Jacques Hadamard

  Intuition, Rigor, Sanctions

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• A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

  Peter Hammill

  Book, Looks, Answers

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• He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

  Peter Hammill

  Two, Trying, Daydreaming

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• Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.

  Richard Hamming

  Believe, Airplane, Math

  "Guide to Essential Math: A Review for Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Students". Book by Sy M. Blinder, p. 16, February 14, 2013.

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• Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.

  Hermann Hankel

  Flower, Eye, Discovery

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• Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.

  George Harrison

  Doors, Going Out, Earth

  Song: The Inner Light

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Doe, Mathematical Models, Bother

  A Brief History of Time ch. 11 (1988)

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• To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.

  Michael Healy

  Data, Weakness, Firsts

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• Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

  Joseph Heller

  Order, Worry, Delay

  1961 Catch-22, ch.17.

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• The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

  Carl Gustav Hempel

  Math, Typical, Information

  Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.13, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

  William Ernest Henley

  Unconquerable Will, Chance, One Tree Hill Love

  "Invictus" l. 5 (1888)

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• Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

  Frank Herbert

  Religion, Progress, Shields

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Science, Thinking, Radio Waves

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• Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

  Benjamin Graham

  Raw Materials, Causes, Prime

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part II, Chapter VI, The Question of Price Stability, p. 85, 1937.

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• Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Sibling, People

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Children, Fall, Caring

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• A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.

  L. Neil Smith

  Real, Civilization, Cities

  "In Praise of Social Benefactors". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. August 18, 2013.

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• The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

  Samuel Karlin

  Science, Data, Purpose

  11th R.A. Fisher Memorial Lectures Royal Society 20 April 1983

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• I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Men, Prove

  Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins

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• Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

  Robert Kennedy

  Science, Men, Murder

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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