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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.
I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.
From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked.
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
You can be a great defensive player, and if you don't put up splash statistics, then you're not going to get noticed.
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.
People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact.
The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.