“Statistics are history, and we gather them so that we can learn from history.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.comTagged: Statistics, History, Past, Lessons, learn
“Sensible people take precautions against possible disasters, and of course one man's idea of precaution is another man's silly worry, but whether we're heavy worriers or light worriers, we all have to draw the line somewhere, and say, "This thing happens too rarely to give me concern."”— Robert Hooke, amazon.comTagged: sensible, People, precautions, disaster, Caution
“The variety of disasters that can occur to us is so enormous that we tend to preserve our sanity by not thinking about most of them.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.comTagged: Variety, Disasters, Enormous, preserve, Sanity
“An individual who is afraid to go outdoors for fear of being hit by a meteorite is generally regarded as neurotic. Such worry is unreasonable, we think, because being hit by a meteorite, while quite possible, is an exceedingly rare event. Being struck by lightning is also rare, but it is more likely…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.comTagged: Afraid, Fear, meteorite, Outdoors, neurotic
“History is supposed to teach us how to deal with the present and future, but it doesn't do that if we look at it merely as a record of events.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.comTagged: History, Teach, present, Future, record
“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, amazon.comTagged: Believe, tabulate, Numbers, statistician, scalpel