Statistics Quotes · Page 14

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

— Albert Einstein

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

— Lord Dunsany

If you had all the money in the world you still can never buy Loyalty its priceless

— Rich Homie Quan

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

— Quentin Crisp

Statistics show 50% of the people use the internet. The rest have sex with real people.

— Jay Leno

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

— Jim Bouton

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

— Edward Tufte

No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.

— Bernie Siegel

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

— Alphonse Allais

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

— Hal Clement

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path…

— Francis Galton

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

— Aaron Levenstein

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

— Ronald Fisher

I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a disproportionate number of comics come from broken…

— Lee Mack

It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is…

— Persis Khambatta

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics,

— Fernando Torres

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into…

— Mark Messier

Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics…

— Eric Butterworth

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and…

— Adam Levine

After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was…

— Isaac Asimov

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with…

— Russell Smith

I generally believe people should be data savvy, and we should teach statistics in high school... and the reason is the world…

— Sebastian Thrun

Throughout the universe of public and private funds, managers are measured quarterly against one index or another, defined by statistics, and corralled…

— Michael Burry

When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the…

— Richard P. Feynman

“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational…

— Steven Pinker

It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has…

— R. B. Braithwaite

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man…

— Jonathan Raban

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

— Robert Solow

“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

— Alan Greenspan

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

— Anonymous

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

— e. e. cummings

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

— Jim Peebles

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

— Thomas Sowell

The economy should serve man, not statistics.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

— Samuel Johnson

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

— Arthur C. Clarke

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

— Dave Barry