The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to. — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat:… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested. — August Wilhelm von Hofmann Copy Share Image
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming. — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe… — Samuel Warren Carey Copy Share Image
Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
