Statistics Quotes

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Even theories must have foundations. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
But to us, probability is the very guide of life. — Joseph Butler
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. — Elias Canetti
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch? — Elias Canetti
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. — Thomas Carlyle
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all. — Thomas Carlyle
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. — Thomas Carlyle
You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times. — J. L. Carr
A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it. — Robert Daniel Carmichael
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen. — Dick Cavett
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles. — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The past has revealed to me the structure of the future. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say… — Herman Chernoff
Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all. — Maurice Chevalier
That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation. — Arthur C. Clarke

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