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“The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.”

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.”

Action Literature Ignorance Terrible Ignorant Statistics

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance”

Has Beens Ignorance Mere Statistics Leap Quantum Mechanic Quantum Mechanics

Author:Rene Thom

“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

Thinking Science Belief Ignorance Physics Experts Statistics

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.”

People Way Said Book Reality Law Political Found Results Numbers Ignorance Months Refuse Deny Protection Fixed Dull Statistics Dozen Unfortunate Mischief Surveys Hysteria Biased Sociologists

Author:Tom Robbins

“Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."”

Men Looks May Science Knowledge Ignorance Ignorant Statistics Satirist

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.”

Mind Ignorance Ideals Absolutes Folks Privilege Certainty Statistics Fanatics Unattainable Uneducated Absolute Certainty

Book:Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen

Source: Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen

“Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.”

Has Beens Light Dark Crime Ignorance Disease Ignorant Statistics Flood Famine Pestilence Handmaids Disease And Death

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1