Michael Starbird Quotes

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Numbers have individual personalities that we can embrace and secrets that we can attempt to lure out of the shadows.

Michael Starbird
Coincidence surprises us because our intuition about the likelihood of an event is often wildly inaccurate.

Michael Starbird
Despite centuries of effort, the universe continues to hide answers to most mathematical issues.

Michael Starbird
Being attuned to the numbers that arise around us is a powerful way of seeing our world with more nuance and detail. Numbers have a way of forcing us to see structure and meaning in our surroundings - structure that could remain hidden without the magnifying lens of quantitative focus.

Michael Starbird
Mathematics and our imaginations have no bounds, no ends, no finish line. Every horizon reached opens new horizons more glorious still.

Michael Starbird
We have isolated the essential and identified the irrelevant.

Michael Starbird
Mathematics is a liberating entertainment. We can discard the kid gloves of reality's restrictions and let out minds play where they will.

Michael Starbird
With our heads spinning in the world of coincidence and chaos, we nevertheless must make decisions and take steps into the minefield of our future. To avoid explosive missteps, we rely on data and statistical reasoning to inform our thinking.

Michael Starbird
Mathematics is not constrained by mundane reality. It can build castles in the air and concepts in the mind whose beauty, magnificence, and intrigue are as boundless as the ideas themselves.

Michael Starbird