Statistics Quotes

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.

Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

"I see it, but I don't believe it."

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.