Statistics Quotes - Page 31

• Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.

  Paul Samuelson

  War, Two, Mit

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• Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

  Ben Zobrist

  Games, Identity, Difficult

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah. That led me to discover through census data that these towns were already extremely white and they were becoming, in most cases, even whiter. Statistics could only tell me so much; in order to get to the spirit and essence of it, I had to immerse myself.

  Richard Benjamin

  Moving, Oregon, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.

  Danny Hillis

  Cycling, Knights, Broken

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• When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

  Hippocrates

  May, Appearance, Should

  Hippocrates (1900*). “Aphorisms”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

  Hippocrates

  Matter, States, Cures

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.234

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• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Choices, Crowds

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

  Francois Jacob

  Shadow, Fiction, Magazines

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• We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

  Henry James

  Artist, Ideas, Criticism

  Henry James, Roger Gard (1987). “The critical muse: selected literary criticism”, Penguin Group USA

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• It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.

  Edwin Thompson Jaynes

  Opposites, Probability Theory, Use

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• Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

  Robert Reich

  Funny, Humorous, Reality

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• If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

  Alan K. Simpson

  Inspirational, Long, Enough

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• In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Succeed, Taught

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Player, Thinking, Worst

  "Coffee break with Victoria Azarenka". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. August 28, 2012.

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• If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

  George Bernard Shaw

  World, Able, Toes

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• Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

  Robert Solow

  Growth, Computer, Economist

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• Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.

  Randi Weingarten

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Real, Facts, Mortality

  "The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is". Interview with Errol Morris, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

  Hugh Howey

  Magic, Hints, Certainty

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• Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

  Joe Torre

  Baseball, Negative, Filled

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• Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

  Bernie Siegel

  People, Giving, Stories

  "The Power of Words: Revising the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Book, Loss, Light

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• It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never statistics, nor fiction, nor news, nor reports, nor periodicals, but only great poems, and when they failed, read them again, or perchance write more. Instead of other sacrifice, we might offer up our perfect (teleia) thoughts to the gods daily, in hymns or psalms. For we should be at the helm at least once a day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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• To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Marriage, Divorce, Thinking

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• Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

  Lawrence Shepp

  Science, Data, Ideas

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