Statistics Quotes

My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even more so to remember that the men, women, and children all involved in and affected by this era were not just statistics: they were people just like we are, with the same hopes, dreams, and very imminent fears.

Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.

Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.

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.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, "Littlewood's Miscellany." He said the average person is alert for about eight hours every day, and something happens to the average person about once a second. At this rate, you will experience 1 million events every thirty-five days. This means when you say the chances of something happening are one in a million, it also means about once a month. The monthly miracle is called Littlewood's Law.