Statistics Quotes

Formatting is no substitute for writing.

— Leslie Lamport

It's the media who love statistics.

— Virgil van Dijk

You know my methods. Apply them.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Why speculate when you can calculate?

— John C. Baez

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

— Mark Twain

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

— Confucius

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

— Harrison Ford

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

— Mark Twain

The statistics for investing in small businesses are such that the vast majority fail.

— Theo Paphitis

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

— Anonymous

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

— William James

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

— Liza Minnelli

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

— Margaret Millar

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

— David Mitchell

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

— William Gibson

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given…

— William James

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

While ideological blinkers blind one to change that one does not wish to see, statistics and opinion surveys, too, have their limitations…

— Sanjaya Baru

...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always…

— George E. P. Box

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

— Jaron Lanier

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

— Thomas Aquinas

David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.…

— David Platt

Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

— Robert Reich

“Many people that have been through the unemployment system realize that the corporate government unemployment statistics only report the short term unemployed…

— Steven Magee

It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and…

— Kenneth Rogoff

I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting…

— Shelley Long

“My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even…

— J. Neven-Pugh

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical…

— Kenneth Arrow

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics…

— Wendell Berry

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very…

— Helen Keller

You can have really good statistics, which are really good, and it's a serious advantage, but when push comes to shove, it's…

— Gerrit Cole

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person…

— Jaron Lanier

As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without…

— Claude Bernard

I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and…

— Harmon Killebrew

If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and…

— Vaclav Havel

The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial…

— Jim Keith

A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't…

— Marilyn Monroe

The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases…

— Anonymous