Quotes for All
Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as healthy as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don’t let the statistics that someone else created affect you. Esther … Read more
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details. Erwin Schrodinger
Awards mean a lot, but they don’t say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. Ernie Banks
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. Ernest Rutherford
I really don’t care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics. Ernest Lanigan
[Freud’s] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact… When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite … Read more
How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight? Ernest Bramah
The Wall will stand for a hundred years. Erich Honecker
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week. Eric Temple Bell
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos. Eric Temple Bell