Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because… — Bill James Copy Share Image
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, my high school coach told me if I ran he was going to bench me. So… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with a Mormon family.… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. — John Eric Erichsen Copy Share Image
statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared leaving no solid clues nor traceonly a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer. — Bobby Bragan Copy Share Image
Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
I live by statistics, so if look at U.S. Census statistics regarding families making over $100,000 dollars a year, 93% of them… — David L. Cohen Copy Share Image
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
“the ability to blur the traditional distinction between ''passive'' data and ''active'' processes.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value. — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. — Josefina Vazquez Mota Copy Share Image
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Statistics say that 1 in 4 people are insane, so take a look at your 3 best friends and if they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
