Car Quote by Dean Koontz

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on…

— Noam Chomsky

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.

— David Ogilvy

I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for…

— Alfred E. Perlman

“One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post – only for support, not for illumination.”

— Sadhguru

“Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support than illumination.”

— Randy Bartlett

A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the…

— Leon M. Lederman

“A great physicist taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published many important books and papers. Often he had an idea in the…

— Annie Dillard

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

— Andrew Lang

My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

— Romano Prodi

Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting.

— Kit Williamson

I am an intelligent drunk because an intelligent drunk carries his liquor with him

— Synyster Gates