Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind. — James Pierpont Copy Share Image
You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers. — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show -… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given… — William James Copy Share Image
While ideological blinkers blind one to change that one does not wish to see, statistics and opinion surveys, too, have their limitations… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Epidemiology is like a bikini: what is revealed is interesting; what is concealed is crucial. — Peter Duesberg 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
After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal, really, is to win a championship. That's my ultimate goal no matter the statistics or how I do it… — Jae Crowder Copy Share Image
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. — John Tukey Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't focus much about the statistics of goals and assists. I always want to improve, but I'm not worried about… — David Silva Copy Share Image
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
As long as I can back up what I say with film and statistics and experience, I can say whatever that film… — Ryan Clark Copy Share Image
Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to… — Andy Van Slyke Copy Share Image
