| Quotations on the subject: Mathematics & Statistics |
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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I could prove God statistically.
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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