Statistics Quotes · Page 11

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

— Jimmy Breslin

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

— Omar Khayyam

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

— Carl Sagan

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

— Georges Braque

Some things are to hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

— Hal Clement

Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.

— Federico Pena

If you look at my career statistics, it's not pretty.

— Michael Waltrip

“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

— Mark Twain

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

— Holger Czukay

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

— Nick Bostrom

With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn…

— Richard Ney

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

— Andrew Lang

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he…

— John Dewey

If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to…

— Derek Jeter

I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all…

— Dave Barry

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show -…

— Alberto Manguel

The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

— Tom Perez

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are…

— Art Buchwald

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics…

— Wendell Berry

Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about…

— Hilma Wolitzer

When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that…

— Margaret Thatcher

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and…

— Darrell Huff

“Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions…

— Carrie Fisher

I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter…

— Herbert M. Shelton

Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also…

— Tom Peters

“The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.…

— Peter Thiel

Half of science is asking the right questions.

— Roger Bacon

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

— Aristotle

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.

— Paul Brodeur

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

— Dr Laurence J Peter

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

— Rex Stout

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

— Havelock Ellis

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

— Aldous Huxley

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

— Richard Hamming