The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I've seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I saw the first one [video with Hans Rosling ] when he did - I think it was his first one -… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the greatest… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
According to the latest statistics there are five million people in our country who are not working. And there are even more… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Because it’s very easy to fall victim to confirmation bias, try focusing only on data that invalidates your hypothesis before looking for… — Product School Copy Share Image
Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning. — Chili Davis Copy Share Image
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture. — Jan Hatzius Copy Share Image
Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with… — David Korten Copy Share Image
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application. — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are… — Michael Zaslow Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.” — Ruth Dugdall Copy Share Image
If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
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