Statistics Quotes

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Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word! — Lou Engle
In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the… — Carmen Lawrence
Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion.… — Randy Alcorn
A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where… — Marilyn Monroe
And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the new racism. To… — Bill Maher
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause… — Claude Bernard
The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow,… — Jim Keith
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know… — Claude Bernard
As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the… — Claude Bernard
I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter of record that… — Herbert M. Shelton
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who… — Francis Galton
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as… — Claude Bernard
We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass,… — Pat Riley
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long… — Wayne Swan
I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics, — Fernando Torres
I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it… — Michael Schumacher
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... — H.G. Wells
Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the… — Vaclav Havel
The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in… — Daniel Finkelstein

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