When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear. — Patricia K. Kuhl Copy Share Image
“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. — Aaron Levenstein Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. — Alphonse Allais Copy Share Image
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
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
The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Gethin Jenkins is one of the best loose-head props in the world. He hits up to 40 rucks a game, makes at… — Warren Gatland Copy Share Image
Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Obsessing about statistics won't make you a better poker player. In fact, you'll end up wasting too much valuable time on that… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read. — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is… — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
You can be a great defensive player, and if you don't put up splash statistics, then you're not going to get noticed. — Booger McFarland Copy Share Image
Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. — Scott Dikkers Copy Share Image
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“If proof were needed that statistics alone are not enough in establishing value, then VT Trumper is that proof.” — Patrick Ferriday Copy Share Image
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
“Use statistics as input not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue.Don't make up your mind and then… — Chip Heath and Dan Heath Copy Share Image
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Writing requires immortal thoughts hidden in your conscience which lead you to all philosophical, emotional, romantic statistics of the humans of this… — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water.” — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
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