It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know. — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
“Because there are 176 definitions for the word loser on urbandictionary.com. Don't Be a Statistic.” — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer. — Edmund Berkeley Copy Share Image
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. — Dizzy Dean Copy Share Image
“Statistics lie. They are designed to sway opinions. Take the time to keep yourself informed on things that matter.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds.… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If you look at the statistics, I genuinely understand why when we go to a production company or a broadcaster, and they… — Joivan Wade Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image
The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus,… — Marshall A. Cohen Copy Share Image
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“The value for which P=0.05, or 1 in 20, is 1.96 or nearly 2; it is convenient to take this point as… — Ronald A. Fisher Copy Share Image
It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s,… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of… — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
“Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image