How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head? — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.” — Phil Dourado Copy Share Image
“Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering! — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is… — Francois Le Lionnais Copy Share Image
Statistically 1 out of 5 females and 1 out of 8 males will go through a depressive episode at some point during… — Anonymous 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
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are statistics out that say 20 year olds, 18 years olds think about sex 90 percent of the time. They only… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Obviously, stats are important tools, but I think there's something behind those things; somewhere along the way, you've got to try to… — Jerry West Copy Share Image
Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic. — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Out of every one hundred Americans, fewer than two get aid from today’s cash welfare program. Just 27 percent of poor families… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named. — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures. — Otto Neurath Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart. — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
