Statistics Quotes - Page 26

• It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

  Havelock Ellis

  Artist, Imagination, Mathematics

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• I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

  Mark Messier

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Important, President, Kind

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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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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• The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Curves, Achievement

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• While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Past

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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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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• We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Pro Life, Abortion, Deceit

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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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• Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

  Richard Courant

  Struggle, Years, Intellectual

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• After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.

  Isaac Asimov

  Years, Way, Gone

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.141, Bantam

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• The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

  Keith Devlin

  Education, Numbers, Different

  Keith Devlin (1998). “Mathematics: The New Golden Age”, p.228, Penguin UK

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• With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part.

  Richard Courant

  Education, Reality, Men

  Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins (1979). “What is mathematics?: an elementary approach to ideas and methods”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

  Francois Le Lionnais

  Education, Learning, Phoenix

  François Le Lionnais (2004). “Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Marthematics in the Arts and Sciences”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• Round numbers are always false.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Numbers, Mathematical

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.8602, Delphi Classics

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• Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

  Anatole France

  God, Science, Names

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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 gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

  Winston Churchill

  Baby, Learning, Science

  As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

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• A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking about the other.

  Steven Landsburg

  Sex, Math, Thinking

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• With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

  Guy Debord

  Events, Stories, Fabulous

  Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.16, Verso

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• When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have fallen sharply, it is worth recalling that economic statistics under the Soviet Union were hardly more reliable than any other official statements. Moreover, a country that produces what no one wants to buy, and whose workers receive wages that they cannot use to buy goods they want, is hardly in the best of economic health.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Real, Russia

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