Statistics Quotes · Page 18

“A firm’s income statement may be likened to a bikini—what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.”

— Burton G. Malkiel

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it…

— Lady Gaga

If you look at the statistics, it's a lot more dangerous to ride down a highway than a big wave.

— Garrett McNamara

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who…

— Luis Bunuel

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

— Richard Courant

Baseball in October is the purest form. All that matters is winning. Individual statistics are not important at that point in the…

— Max Fried

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

— Anthony Standen

I knew the statistics of playing pro football were 1% of 1%, so I just never planned on it.

— Kirk Cousins

Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works…

— Vaclav Havel

“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race,…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be…

— Thomas Carlyle

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff…

— Samantha Power

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more…

— Jack Paar

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you…

— Lars Peter Hansen

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s,…

— David Robertson

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when…

— Amity Shlaes

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence,…

— James A. Garfield

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

— Richard Bach

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has…

— Eric Davis

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

— Edwin Balmer

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It…

— Kim Campbell

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

— David Berlinski

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from…

— Stewart Brand

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in…

— Michael Lewis

“Our limited data force a sense of historical fragility: even as I nurture interpretation, I continually run the risk of creating it…

— Mark S. Smith

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

— Anonymous

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

— Caitlin Moran

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

— William Blake

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in…

— Ernest Lanigan

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

— Omar Khayyam

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

— John Boyle O'Reilly

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

— Albert Einstein

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

— Clive Thompson

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

— Claude Bernard

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

— August Wilhelm von Hofmann

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat:…

— Casey Kasem

I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

— Hal Varian

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

— Francis Bacon