Statistics Quotes · Page 27

Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find…

— John Shaw Billings

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“...when one considers that there are more than 750,000 police officers in the United States and that these officers have tens of…

— David Klinger

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the…

— Aristotle

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look…

— Anonymous

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

— Dean Smith

How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or…

— Ernest Bramah

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

— Bill Gosper

Moneyball' doesn't have anything to do with on-base percentage or statistics. It's a constant investigation of stagnant systems, to see if you…

— Paul DePodesta

After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

— Steve Jobs

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

— Winston Churchill

'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.

— Thomas Szasz

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary…

— Aristotle

It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

— Philip K. Dick

Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago…

— Barack Obama

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

— Edward Kasner

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

— Erwin Schrodinger

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

— Douglas Adams

Sometimes when you come in a team where there are a lot of big names - how can I say this? -…

— Demba Ba

[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got…

— Ernest Jones

If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously we should all be saved a lot of trouble.

— Maurice Kendall

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

— Edmond de Goncourt

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

— Gunter Grass

What helped a lot was becoming a dad at 47. I can't begin to imagine how I would have coped when I…

— Mick Hucknall

I bathe in statistics.

— Mitt Romney