塞万提斯 (1547-1616)

摘自西班牙大文豪塞万提斯的小说《唐·吉诃德》
通过一小片样品,我们可以判断全部。

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

By a small sample, we may judge of the whole piece.
From his novel “Don Quixote”

以利蓿·莱特 (1804-1885)

没有什么能比一个人的生命更不确定了,而一千个人的平均寿命却比什么都更确定。
美国统计学家,人寿保险之父

Elizur Wright (1804-1885)

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
(American mathematician, “father of life insurance”)

阿瑟·波里 (英国统计学家、经济学家)

统计学的知识如同外语或代数的知识;它在任何时间任何情况下都会有用处。

A.L. Bowley (1869—1957) (English statistician and economist)

A knowledge of statistics is like a knowledge of foreign languages or of algebra; it may prove of use at any time under any circumstances.