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Science Quotes by Evan Esar

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A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

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[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

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[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

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[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

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Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

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A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

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Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

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It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

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“Let those who want to, arrive Let those who want to, leave Let those who want to, stay With out harm to me or…

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The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

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The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.

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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

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There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

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The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

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The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

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The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

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