But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized,… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your… — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read. — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
I generally believe people should be data savvy, and we should teach statistics in high school... and the reason is the world… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
As long as I can back up what I say with film and statistics and experience, I can say whatever that film… — Ryan Clark Copy Share Image
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look… — Story Musgrave 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
Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics. — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him". — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
