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I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.'
Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.
Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously we should all be saved a lot of trouble.
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.
The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?
Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.
Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!
Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
I had games where I had better statistics than others, but it wasn't because I wasn't playing hard.
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.
I must learn to adapt, or else I'll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.
One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.