Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts. — Leslie Lamport Copy Share Image
Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie. — George W. Buck Copy Share Image
Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is… — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
“My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even… — J. Neven-Pugh Copy Share Image
I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting… — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
“Many people that have been through the unemployment system realize that the corporate government unemployment statistics only report the short term unemployed… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
“The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link. — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
