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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
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All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality.
Esther Hicks
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Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access but when they do want them, they want them badly.
John Shaw Billings
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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
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Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.
George Berkeley
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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
Aristotle
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Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
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over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
David Mitchell
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In 1962 and 1963, there were two abominable decisions out of the Supreme Court, and that was taking prayer out of school, and taking bible reading out of school. But you know, if you look at the statistics, two very critical things happened after that date. Number one: teen pregnancy skyrocketed. Number two: violent crime skyrocketed.
Rafael Cruz
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God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
Gian-Carlo Rota
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I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
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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
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I bathe in statistics.
Mitt Romney
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There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
W. S. Gilbert
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African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of similar crimes. Behind these statistics are heart-wrenching stories of lives cut short and families ripped apart.
Hillary Clinton
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Probability is the very guide of life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
Rita Mae Brown
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The master of superstition, is the people and in all superstition, wise men follow fools and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
Francis Bacon
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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
Lewis Carroll
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
Ben Horowitz
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According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
Ambrose Bierce
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Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.
Eric Temple Bell
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