There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of… — William James Copy Share Image
We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are… — Michael Zaslow Copy Share Image
This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“While most of us are comfortable acknowledging that luck plays a role in what we do, we have difficulty assessing its role… — Michael J. Mauboussin Copy Share Image
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards. — Alexander Jablokov Copy Share Image
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times. — J. L. Carr Copy Share Image
According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
“Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
