Charles Francis Richter Quotes

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

Maths is the language of science.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

Math - it's not my best subject.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

I love math.

Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.

I really like maths.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

Above all else show the data.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."