Quotes About Probability And Statistics

#1. I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data.

Leonard Mlodinow

#2. I read somewhere that luck is not blind, just illiterate. Luck, I mused, is a palliative for those who don't know probability and statistics.

Orhan Pamuk

#3. In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!

Steven Pinker

#4. 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.'

Aristotle.

#5. One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

Ronald Blythe

#6. All statistics have outliers.

Nenia Campbell

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

Ruth Dugdall

#8. What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Paul Kalanithi

#9. It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.

Edwin Thompson Jaynes

#10. Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

John Gay

#11. Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried

Elizabeth Musser

#12. If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we'd have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they're erratic. People do crazy things that don't make sense.

Sara Sheridan

#13. He has the thousand-yard stare.

Sophocles

#14. A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made.

Morris H. DeGroot

#15. History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Alan Greenspan

#16. I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

Gordon Getty

#17. Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

Bradley Efron

#18. He watched her, listened to her, and knew she was truly asleep. He kissed her forehead and found the act pleasing for its own sake. And, he admitted as he licked his lips, it was enjoyable for other reasons. Meg wasn't bitable, but he really did like the taste of her.

Anne Bishop

#19. Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

John Maynard Keynes

#21. Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.

Robyn

#22. revealing a splotchy red forehead, shiny with sweat.

Lauren Oliver

#23. in there," and the first guy says, "Watch." In he goes and orders a beer. "Sorry, you can't bring your dog in here," says the bartender.

Various

#24. When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn't wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#25. The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Adam Savage

#26. I write best when "I" am not writing.

Girish Kohli

#27. There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.

Anya Kamenetz