A Quote by Robert Hooke

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke
English - Philosopher
July 28, 1635 - March 3, 1703

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

Robert Rodriguez

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

Paulo Coelho

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

William S. Burroughs

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone

Paulo Coelho

I don't blame anyone for not believing me, if I had not experienced it myself, I would not have believed it myself.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.

Paul Kalanithi

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

Artie Shaw

There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy.

David Grinspoon

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

Norman Schwarzkopf

It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same time, it changes our priorities. For example, before I would always remember people's telephone numbers and now I don't know anyone's number. So what happens if computer systems go down but you still have landlines? Well, I couldn't call anyone because I don't know anyone's number.

Misha Glenny

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Nicolas Chamfort

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Terry McAuliffe

The world isn't what I've believed it to be, and I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

Byron Katie

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!