Quotable Mathematics

"Whatever relates to extent and quantity may be represented by geometrical figures. Statistical projections which speak to the senses w...

"All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive."  (Wilhelm...

"Among the whole sciences, statistics belongs to the social sciences and through its method it is linked to logic."   (Armand Juli...

"The term dispersion is used to indicate the facts that within a given group, the items differ  from one another in size or in other wo...

"Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what...

"No doubt statistics can be easily misinterpreted; and are often very misleading when first applied to new problems. But many of the wo...

"This statistical regularity in moral affairs fully establishes their being under the presidency of law. Man is seen to be an enigma on...

"An average value is a single value within the range of the data that is used to represent all  of the values in the series. Since an a...

The quote is from Andrew Lang's speech from 1910 (see [3]) referenced in several other places (see [4], [5], [6]) without specifying the...

"Overemphasis on tests of significance at the expense especially of interval estimation has long been condemned." (David R Cox, ...