Probability And Statistics Quotes

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn't wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. — John Gay

All statistics have outliers. — Nenia Campbell

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it. — Bradley Efron

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities. — Alan Greenspan

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable. — Ruth Dugdall

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

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