Statistics Quotes · Page 16

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

— Samuel Johnson

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

— Anatole France

Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

— Robert Coveyou

Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

— Philip K. Dick

It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

— Frederick Mosteller

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

— Fletcher Knebel

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

— Holger Czukay

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

— Mark Twain

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

— Nick Bostrom

“...it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but…

— Dave Zirin

According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the…

— Conan O'Brien

We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year…

— Kimora Lee Simmons

I noticed one thing. According to the ABA statistics, only 3.5 percent of lawyers in America in 2000 were Hispanic, yet they…

— Jeff Sessions

When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of…

— Antony Beevor

Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause…

— Joycelyn Elders

Over 13 percent of women in college have reported being a victim of stalking during the school year, and one out of…

— Gwen Moore

In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in…

— Steven Pinker

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue…

— Roger Ascham

“A vast army of government employees [Central, state and local government] of around 20 million are taken care by the remaining 380…

— R. Vaidyanathan

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

— Alan Dean Foster

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie…

— Harry Reasoner

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

— Romano Prodi

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

— Havelock Ellis

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

— Rex Stout

“It doesn't take a PhD in statistics to know your one vote doesn't count.”

— Rick Schmoyer

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

— Philip K. Dick

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

— Aldous Huxley

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

— Aldous Huxley

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

— Richard Hamming

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

— Albert Einstein

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

— Stephen Hawking

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

— Michael Crichton

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

— Thomas Browne

I could care less about statistics. It's all about team success.

— Karl-Anthony Towns