In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget… — Udny Yule Copy Share Image
We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them. — Frederick Mosteller Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe… — Samuel Warren Carey Copy Share Image
Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I knew the statistics of playing pro football were 1% of 1%, so I just never planned on it. — Kirk Cousins Copy Share Image
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s,… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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