History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.
What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.
Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.
Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
I think, traditionally, when the federal government has gathered statistics, it's been done in silos, so every agency really focuses on the statistics that are important to agency.
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
Luck is statistics taken personally.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations; yet despite that, the representative of these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord, with the knowledge that the statistics speak of the death and displacement of millions of human beings because of global warming, especially in Africa.