I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
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Scott Dikkers
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Banksy
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Richard Feynman
All statistics have outliers.
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Nenia Campbell
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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Benjamin Disraeli
More Quotes By Alan Shepard
I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet....
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when...
You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
