Statistics Quotes
674 quotes by 506 authors
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
— Aristotle
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what…
— Saint Augustine
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot…
— Douglas Adams
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
— Francis Bacon
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If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
— Red Adair
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Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
— Ernie Banks
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
— Douglas Adams
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In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
— Dave Barry
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
— Marion Barry
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
— Jean Baudrillard
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We made too many wrong mistakes.
— Yogi Berra
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of…
— Niels Bohr
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Since when was genius found respectable?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best…
— Rita Mae Brown
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile…
— Art Buchwald
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
— Edmund Burke
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
— Lord Byron
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