Statistics Quotes

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Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens… — Ronald Reagan
I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages,… — Harmon Killebrew
Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything. — Lou Piniella
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics,… — Adolphe Quetelet
Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. — Toby Harrah
Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2 — MaryAnne Tebedo
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It… — Mark Twain
In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me… — John Templeton
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your… — Samuel Warren Carey
The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at… — Herb Gray
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we… — Thabo Mbeki
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime,… — James A. Garfield
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. — Theodor Billroth
I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with… — Karl Pearson
All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about… — Esther Hicks
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock
Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to… — Liam Neeson
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed. — Sandra Day O'Connor

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