Frederick Mosteller Quotes

#1. The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.

Frederick Mosteller

#2. I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home.

Brittany Bowe

#3. The either/or vs. the both/and views of objective reality & truth determine God to either exist in confinement or free to be who He is, I Am That I Am.

R. Alan Woods

#4. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light." (John 3:19-20.)

Spencer W. Kimball

#5. It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

Frederick Mosteller

#6. How can we live without the unknown before us?

Rene Char

#7. I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

John Steinbeck

#8. America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.

Jesse Helms

#9. I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

Martin Sheen

#10. Lot of people wondering if John Kerry supports gay marriages. Here's a hint ... he gets $1,000 haircuts.

Craig Kilborn

#11. We are many. Our number is greater than the stars. We are more than infinity.

Brian Keene

#12. While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.

Frederick Mosteller

#13. It is almost impossible to grow a company of any size and worth unless you expand beyond yourself

Rhonda Abrams

#14. The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening.

Noam Chomsky

#15. I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.

Kobe Bryant

#16. Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly

Frederick Mosteller

#17. The Skeptic's mistake lies in thinking that we should tie our hands behind our backs just because we will not be able to reach rock-hard conclusions.

Frederick Mosteller

#18. I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

Wynton Marsalis