Statistics Quotes

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Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level. — Enrico Fermi
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. — Michael Faraday
And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way… — Warren Farrell
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. — Richard P. Feynman
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. — Gustave Flaubert
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are… — G. H. Hardy
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. — Robert A. Heinlein
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to… — Christopher Hitchens
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. — Elbert Hubbard
Life is just one damned thing after another. — Elbert Hubbard
If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places… — Vanilla Ice
The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. — Patricia Ireland
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. — William James
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. — Daniel Kahneman
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance… — Casey Kasem
In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. — Fletcher Knebel
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a… — Donald Knuth
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again. — Madeleine M. Kunin
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. — Andrew Lang

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