Statistics Quotes · Page 21

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.

— Samuel Johnson

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

— Bertrand Russell

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or…

— Hugh Howey

Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is…

— Will Rogers

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you…

— Johnny Carson

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to…

— Eric Temple Bell

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of…

— Francois Jacob

I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims…

— Gethin Jones

no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate…

— Antoinette Bosco

“Statistics are rarely meaningful in and of themselves. Statistics will, and should, almost always be used to illustrate a relationship. It’s more…

— Chip Heath

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try…

— Marc Racicot

I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat…

— Karl Pearson

The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is…

— William Ernest Bowman

A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in…

— Morris H. DeGroot

A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking…

— Jefferson Han

“the ability to blur the traditional distinction between ''passive'' data and ''active'' processes.”

— Anonymous

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

— W. Edwards Deming

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

— Marilyn vos Savant

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the…

— Carlos Castaneda

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic…

— Richard Courant

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

— Gunter Grass

Statistics say that 1 in 4 people are insane, so take a look at your 3 best friends and if they are…

— Anonymous

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

— Simon Sinek

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer…

— Christopher Hitchens

In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked.

— Rebecca Traister

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value.

— Charles Seife

If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously we should all be saved a lot of trouble.

— Maurice Kendall

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable…

— Frank Schatzing

I must learn to adapt, or else I'll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.

— Spencer Paysinger

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

— W. Allen Wallis

I'm a massive football fan, so when Ladbrokes approached me and asked me to take a look at the statistics, I jumped…

— Rachel Riley

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

— Angela Featherstone

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to…

— Richard P. Feynman

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

— Irving R. Levine

You always have to be very, very careful with statistics. It doesn't mean that we negate them completely; we just don't use…

— Andre Villas-Boas

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

— Bill Gates