Statistics Quotes

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Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. — Woody Hayes
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. — Dizzy Dean
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army… — John Coleman
'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they… — Douglas Adams
I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say. — Douglas Adams
'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.' — Douglas Adams
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making. — Douglas Adams
Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. — Henry Adams
You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary. — Abel Aganbegyan
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. — Poul Anderson
Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all. — Noel Annan, Baron Annan
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components. — Thomas Aquinas
The light of faith makes us see what we believe. — Thomas Aquinas
Every thought is an afterthought. — Hannah Arendt
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.' — Aristotle
If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being… — Aristotle
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. — Aristotle
Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals. — Peter Armitage
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. — Rudolf Arnheim
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, &… — Roger Ascham

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