A Quote by Richard Dawkins

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins
English - Scientist
Born: March 26, 1941

Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.

Sheri S. Tepper

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

David Goodstein

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

George Orwell

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

Marvin Minsky

The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.

David Weinberger

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

David Gilmour

There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization, introduction of takt time, synchronization, shortening the total production lead time which I am fond of referring to as non statistical tools.

Masaaki Imai

Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

Camille Paglia

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

Martin Seligman

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.