Statistics Quotes

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Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself. — Winston Churchill
I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding. — Hal Varian
If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers. — Edward Tufte
Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. — George E. P. Box
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. — John Tukey
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given… — John Tukey
The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare… — Josiah Stamp
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,… — Steven Pinker
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost… — Mark Twain
Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics. — Chris Mooney
In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories… — Osama bin Laden
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces… — James A. Garfield
I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses can follow. For… — Jeffrey Hollender
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles,… — Stephen Leacock
Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching… — Stephen Colbert
I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to… — Stephen Colbert
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.... — Harry Reasoner
The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits. — Ann Coulter
I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics. — Matthew Gray Gubler
When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics. — Joseph Stalin

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