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it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.
Liv Ullmann
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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.
Steven Pinker
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I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.
Manmohan Singh
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I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
Dizzy Dean
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
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Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
Helen Keller
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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.
Spencer Rascoff
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.
Edward Mills Purcell
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If you look at the statistics regarding Native Americans, you will see that most of the tribes since the 70s have improved their economic situation in some form. And this has been brought about by their aggressive assertion of their sovereign treaty rights.
Leonard Peltier
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Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.
Eric Butterworth
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Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.
Stewart Brand
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford
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When you look at what Star (casino) has done for Sydney over the last fifteen years.. I don't think it has done a lot. When you look at what Crown (his casino) has done for Melbourne, I think it has done an enormous amount. And there's all sorts of statistics and figures and facts that can back those things up.
James Packer
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Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.
Leonhard Euler
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In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics.
Philip J. Davis
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The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
Douglas Adams
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No one-liner can ever be optimal.
Stephen Jay Gould
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If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
Vanilla Ice
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The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.
Samuel Karlin
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There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.
John W. Campbell
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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
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