Statistics Quotes · Page 8

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

— Ellen Goodman

Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.

— Hal Clement

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

— Joseph Stalin

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar

Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

— Roger Lewin

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

— Thomas Carlyle

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

— Jimmy Breslin

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of…

— Vanilla Ice

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized…

— Albert Einstein

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened…

— Italo Calvino

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

— William W Watt

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

— Israel Gelfand

“When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.”

— Steven D. Levitt

“many instances of supervisory madness are not the result of malice or idiocy, but rather genuine unawareness due to impeded data-flows (and…

— Uri Bram

Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics…

— Jerry Moran

Statistics tell us that of the 500,000 people who arrived, those who are granted political asylum are more or less 10 percent.…

— Matteo Salvini

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

There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in…

— Robert Eastaway

Over 13 percent of women in college have reported being a victim of stalking during the school year, and one out of…

— Gwen Moore

In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in…

— Steven Pinker

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue…

— Roger Ascham

When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of…

— Antony Beevor

The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is…

— Austin Bradford Hill

Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the…

— Richard M. Weaver

We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the…

— Jesse Helms

“J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, "Littlewood's Miscellany."…

— David McRaney

And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the…

— Bill Maher

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to…

— Red Holzman

In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions…

— Osama bin Laden

"[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of…

— Kanye West

I don't really care about statistics from other attackers.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.”

— Roger Jones

“A small sample, we repeat, is rarely the big scientific problem. Interpretation is.”

— Stephen Thomas Ziliak

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

— Peter Kenyon

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

— Omar Khayyam

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

— Georges Braque

Some things are to hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

— Hal Clement

Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.

— Federico Pena