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Science Quotes by Evan Esar
- [Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.
- [Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
- A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.
- Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
- Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
- Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
More Science Quotes
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation… — Marcus Aurelius
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius