Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true..
According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good..
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude an….
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus..
It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination..
Everything flows, nothing stays still..
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.'.
Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics..
You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal..
The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ..
No matter what the statistics say there is always a way..
Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it..
The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!.
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it..
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation..
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it..
Training was one thing, reality another..
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty..
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000..
I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [fi….
In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must det….