Statistics Quotes · Page 40

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

— Ela Bhatt

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

— Samuel Johnson

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

— Joseph Butler

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

— William W Watt

According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the…

— Conan O'Brien

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might…

— Bob Filner

In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions…

— Osama bin Laden

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

— George Iles

It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those…

— Edwin Thompson Jaynes

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

— Ken Salazar

In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be…

— Carmen Lawrence

Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be…

— Walter Kirn

“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]”

— Michael Lewis

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have…

— Donald Knuth

statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared leaving no solid clues nor traceonly a…

— Ishmael Reed

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do…

— Lars Peter Hansen

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

— Margaret Millar

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

— Evan Esar

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

— Thomas Sowell

Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the…

— Norbert Reithofer

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic…

— Richard Courant

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

— Mark Twain

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

— Andrew Lang

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

— Henry Clay