309 Quotes About Statistics

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Every thought is an afterthought.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.