Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Because you have things like ‚American Idol‘ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn’t do with anything else, we just have to do it.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.