Quotes About Limit

Statistical inference is really just the marriage of two concepts that we've already discussed: data and probability (with a little help from the central limit theorem).

The central limit theorem tells us that a large sample will not typically deviate sharply from its underlying population

The central limit theorem tells us that the sample means will be distributed roughly as a normal distribution around the population mean.

But every effort to make this work in practice at any scale failed, largely because the social bonds that police such mutual aid tend to fray when the size of the group exceeds 150 (termed the "Dunbar number"—the empirically observed limit at which the members of a human community can maintain strong links with one another).

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

There is no such thing as a low risk lap in Monaco. It doesn't exist if you want to be fast, because you have to be on the limit.

I've got 4,000 cell phone minutes, and I take it to the limit every month.

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

An outsider may wonder how deep a specialist must dig his hole before he realizes that he has lost sight of the horizon...

We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky Like that fearless flower --Sosuke Aizen,Flower on the Precipice

spent much of my life in Lyme with my eyes fixed to the ground in search of fossils. Such hunting can limit a person's perspective.

The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen

I believe in the essential wisdom of the notion of infinite diversity in infinite combinations. The evolution of other species does not have to limit ours. Existence is not a zero-sum equation.

The greatest fear is knowing that the sky is not the limit but beginning of wonders!

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

But what we see and understand of the universe is not an infinity to drown in. It is a wide sea, but a finite one.

It is the limit up to which we can determine physical variables.

Therefore, the first meaning of quantum mechanics is the existence of a limit to the information that can exist within a system: a limit to the number of distinguishable states in which a system can be. This limitation upon infinity, this granularity of nature glimpsed by Democritus, is the first central aspect of the theory. Planck's constant h measures the elementary scale of this granularity.

Quantum gravity is the discovery that no infinitely small point exists. There is a lower limit to the divisibility of space.

I have drawn the line, and I am still on this side of it.

There needs to be a turn-off button for noses. This is too much.

A line has been drawn in the sand.

There is always some limit which the individual accepts. He identifies this limit with himself. Horror seizes him at the thought that this limit may cease to be. But we are wrong to take this limit and the individual's acceptance of it seriously. The limit is only there to be overreached. Fear and horror are not the real and final reaction; on the contrary, they are a temptation to overstep the bounds.

But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.