Statistics Quotes · Page 5

You see, but you do not observe.

— Anonymous

Statistics are there to be broken.

— Anonymous

Who then will explain the explanation?

— Lord Byron

Without analysis, no synthesis.

— Friedrich Engels

I bathe in statistics.

— Mitt Romney

We know nothing until intuition agrees.

— Richard Bach

Mathematics is a language

— J. Willard Gibbs

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

— Henry Adams

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

— Peter Kenyon

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

— Dr Laurence J Peter

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.

— Paul Brodeur

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

— Aristotle

If you look at my career statistics, it's not pretty.

— Michael Waltrip

Half of science is asking the right questions.

— Roger Bacon

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

— Georges Braque

Some things are to hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

— Hal Clement

When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.

— Patricia K. Kuhl

“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.”

— Criss Jami

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

— Anonymous

You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from…

— Michael Jackson

You can be a great defensive player, and if you don't put up splash statistics, then you're not going to get noticed.

— Booger McFarland

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.

— Milton Friedman

I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed…

— Michael Schumacher

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics,

— Fernando Torres

We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination…

— Lawrence Shepp

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to…

— Paul Halmos

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only…

— T. S. Eliot

In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of…

— Charlotte Gray

You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing…

— Lilly Singh

Technology and the Internet have created a new set of relationships. It's changed the social fabric of promotion: advertising, dating. Part of…

— Steve Miller

Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn…

— Randy Alcorn

“Significance unfortunately is a useful means toward a personal ends in the advance of science - status and widely distributed publications, a…

— Stephen Thomas Ziliak

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making…

— James A. Garfield

Incredibly, nearly 70,000 Young Adults between 15-39 are diagnosed with cancer each year. 10,000 will not survive. This is a very important…

— Jenna Morasca

Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise…

— Ambrose Bierce

You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate…

— Katherine Applegate

“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status…

— Christopher Fowler

Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole…

— Clarence Darrow

“Dawes observed that the complex statistical algorithm adds little or no value. One can do just as well by selecting a set…

— Daniel Kahneman