#statistic

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#attention #brought #class #i #mechanics

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#making #making up #other #statistics #telling

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at. ↗

— Tom Peters

#believe #doing #emotionally #good #help

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. ↗

— Tom Peters

#because #being #believing #change #change the world

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#illumination #like #more #statistics #support

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. ↗

— George A. Romero

#bucks #fail #fart #film #film industry

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#blaming #far #irrespective #many #moved

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#grasp #here #human #human mind #impossible

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. ↗

— Fletcher Knebel

#leading #smoking #statistics

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. ↗

— Nate Silver

#different #different things #perceive #really #statistically