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Statistics Quotes by George E. P. Box
- Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.
- ...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in…
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- Democracy is an abuse of statistics. — Jorge Luis Borges
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
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- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- We made too many wrong mistakes. — Yogi Berra
- We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have… — Niels Bohr
- For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It… — Kim Campbell
- The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain