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Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.
Richard Bach
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
Ai Weiwei
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Statistics do not speak for themselves.
Milton Friedman
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Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.
Chris Mooney
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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
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Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing starvation. Before such statistics, believers should never forget Dostoevsky's assertion that the suffering of children is the greatest proof against the existence of God for without justice, there is no God.
Thomas Cahill
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I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics in terms of the importance of educating girls as a way of lifting whole societies out of poverty.
Swanee Hunt
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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious
Daniel Libeskind
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The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.
Keith Devlin
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I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
Robert Sternberg
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
Anatole France
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No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.
John W. Campbell
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Jean Baudrillard
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The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species to remark general properties and large appearances.
Samuel Johnson
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The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
William Ralph Inge
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.
David Berlinski
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It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid.
William Stanley Jevons
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So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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All models are wrong, but some are useful.
George E. P. Box
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
Thomas Carlyle
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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
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It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.
Lawrence Kasdan
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It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.
Dave Barry
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Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.
Edgar Fiedler
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