“Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of… — Maurice Kendall Copy Share Image
The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics.… — Allan Border Copy Share Image
You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times. — J. L. Carr Copy Share Image
Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on… — Alfred E. Perlman Copy Share Image
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it… — Israel Nathan Herstein Copy Share Image
I was always really into the facts and figures and the statistics about nature and I always loved learning about it and… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The world view of the underdog socialist is encapsulated in the notion that the establishment has mastered the game of reason, judgment… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Statistics are one thing. But if you're not putting up the numbers as far as winning, they're not going to consider you… — Scottie Pippen Copy Share Image
There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high. — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing. — Hubert M. Blalock Copy Share Image
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because… — Bill James Copy Share Image
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall. — John Dee Copy Share Image
Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal. — Armand Trousseau Copy Share Image
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would… — Jacob Bernoulli Copy Share Image
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people,… — Bobby Bragan Copy Share Image
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too. — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y… — John C. Baez Copy Share Image
