Statistics Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Vandalism

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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• If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

  Jasper Fforde

  Laughing, Survival, Cracks

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• Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

  William Blake

  Atheism, Ratios, Reason

  William Blake, Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi (1998). “The Early Illuminated Books”, p.26, Princeton University Press

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• The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

  William Godwin

  Elements, Logic, Mathematics

  William Godwin (2006). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries”, p.589, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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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• Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Details, Narrative

  The Mikado act 2 (1885)

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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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• It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

  Albert Einstein

  Say Anything, Intention, Aim

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Lying, Errors

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• The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

  Israel Gelfand

  Believe, Problem, Mathematical

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• One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Knowledge, Views, Simplicity

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• Mathematics is a language

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Math, Language, Mathematics

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• Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

  William Gibson

  Matter, Ifs

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• You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.

  Bruce Ellis

  Girl, Writing, Trouble

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• I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Ideas, Voice

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• For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

  Kim Campbell

  Design, Unemployment, Poverty

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• The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases!

  Josiah Stamp

  Government, Roots, Mind

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• Since when was genius found respectable?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Respect, Genius, Found

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 6, l. 275

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• Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.

  Vaclav Havel

  Heart, Different, World

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• And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

  Warren Zevon

  Ocean, Future, California

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• In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.

  Charlotte Gray

  People, Canada, Lasts

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• There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.

  Norbert Wiener

  Engineering, Names, Important

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• Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do better. Alas, anecdotes are not science. And once Wharton School dissertations seek to quantify the performers, these have a tendency to evaporate into the air - or, at least, into statistically insignificant t-statistics.

  Paul Samuelson

  School, Men, Air

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