Statistics Quotes

674 quotes by 454 authors

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics. — John Ralston Saul
When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear. — Patricia K. Kuhl
No matter what the statistics say there is always a way. — Bernie Siegel
You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart. — Michael Jackson
It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them. — Frederick Mosteller
Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences. — Edmond de Goncourt
According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find… — Morey Amsterdam
And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid… — Warren Zevon
Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport. — Ford Frick
I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S? — Unknown Author
I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics. — Unknown Author
Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches. — Jim Bouton
Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the… — Unknown Author
Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow. — Andy Van Slyke
To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know. — Helena Christensen
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. — Edward Dahlberg
I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second… — Ava DuVernay
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment. — Hilaire Belloc
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isnâ€™t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so — Aleister Crowley

Who Wrote These Statistics Quotes

454 authors contributed a total of 674 Statistics Quotes, led by these top contributors: