Statistics Quotes · Page 20

“No data yet," he answered. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you…

— Dale Spender

Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than…

— W. C. Fields

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

— Baron Annan Noel Annan

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila…

— Jack Newfield

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

— Rene Descartes

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

— Soledad O'Brien

It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method,…

— Fred Brooks

People are looking a lot at statistics and all these things, but in the end, I don't really care. If we can…

— Kevin De Bruyne

There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from…

— John Coleman

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those…

— Sophus Lie

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully…

— Eric Alterman

I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.' When I was in the…

— Angela Featherstone

In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also…

— Richard Branson

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone…

— Michael Lewis

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.

— Heidi Hammel

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look…

— Anonymous

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

— Keith Devlin

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas…

— Brendan Rodgers

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

— Bernard Nathanson

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

— Rita Mae Brown

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

— Patrick Swayze

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

— Albert Einstein

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

— Liv Ullmann

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

— Bertrand Russell

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either…

— Steven Landsburg

“Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.”

— Steven Magee

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

— Hippocrates

The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.

— Jim Berger

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

— John Eric Erichsen

statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared leaving no solid clues nor traceonly a…

— Ishmael Reed

Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of…

— Tom Hiddleston

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.

— Arthur C. Clarke

All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer.

— Bobby Bragan

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

I live by statistics, so if look at U.S. Census statistics regarding families making over $100,000 dollars a year, 93% of them…

— David L. Cohen

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to…

— Norman Ralph Augustine