We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them. — William James Copy Share Image
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget… — Udny Yule Copy Share Image
Epidemiology is like a bikini: what is revealed is interesting; what is concealed is crucial. — Peter Duesberg Copy Share Image
Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
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Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show -… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
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America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Just providing information about how bad things are, or the statistics and data on incarceration by themselves, does lead to more depression… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“While most of us are comfortable acknowledging that luck plays a role in what we do, we have difficulty assessing its role… — Michael J. Mauboussin Copy Share Image
If you look at the statistics of fratricide or intra-sibling homicide, it's extremely rare. And look at Burke [Ramsey] and JonBenet at… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
“The mind is more comfortable in reckoning probabilities in terms of the relative frequency of remembered or imagined events. That can make… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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