Adolphe Quetelet Quotes

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.

Adolphe Quetelet

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• If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Brother
  • Year
  • Filmmaker

• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Think
  • Want
  • Myself

• My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Love
  • Job
  • Fear

• I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Practice

• It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Happy
  • Gun
  • Riding

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Passion

• The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Gospel
  • Personally

• You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Color

• Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Men
  • Live
  • Commitment

• Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Business
  • Appreciate
  • Run

• If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.

  

  Gary Ross
  • World
  • Learning
  • View

• Every coach, when starting work at a new club, hopes to stay many, many years because it means you are working very well. You have the possibility to improve your players, to improve your team, and to grow together.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Work
  • Together
  • Team

• I've repeatedly seen unscrupulous lenders use every con in the book to charm and lie to homeowners. Lenders actually paid brokers a premium to put people in higher-priced loans with toxic features, such as adjustable rates and prepayment penalties.

  

  Lisa Madigan
  • People
  • Book

• One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Science
  • Change

• I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Classes
  • Academics
  • Collected

• Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.

  

  Adolphe Quetelet
  • Science
  • Statistics
  • Hypotheses