Statistics Quotes - Page 25

• Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

  Maureen Stapleton

  Home, Odds, Insanity

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• no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.

  Antoinette Bosco

  Use, Amnesty, Facts

  Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”

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• The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model . . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.

  Herbert Simon

  Real, Two, Groups

  Herbert Alexander Simon (1957). “Models of man: social and rational; mathematical essays on rational human behavior in society setting”

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• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Facts, Distrust

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.163, Courier Corporation

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• Statistics are the heart of democracy.

  Simeon Strunsky

  Heart, Democracy

  Topics of the Times November 30, 1944

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• You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.

  Armand Trousseau

  Drug, Patient, Should

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• Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.

  Ronald Fisher

  Data, Issues, Tasks

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• ... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

  Ronald Fisher

  Interpretation, Procedures, Experiments

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• In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.

  Udny Yule

  Differences, Lust, Wish

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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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• Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

  W. C. Fields

  Religious, Drinking, Hysteria

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up.

  Seymour Papert

  Growing Up, Powerful, Believe

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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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• Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.

  Molly Ivins

  Depressing, Debt, Libertarian

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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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• In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

  Donald Kagan

  College, Today, Study

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• There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Astrology, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

  Josiah Stamp

  Links, May, Individual

  Some Economic Factors in Modern Life ch. 8 (1929)

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• Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

  David Korten

  Jobs, Lying, Hype

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• There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Robert Eastaway

  Education, Math, Government

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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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• 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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