Believe Quote by Robert Hooke

Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have…

— Akshay Kumar

“The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere…

— Stephen Senn

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

— Tom Rath

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

— Evan Esar

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

— Nate Silver

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

— Koren Zailckas

It's the media who love statistics.

— Virgil van Dijk

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

— Wilhelm Stekel

The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can…

— Emily Oster

“Use statistics as input not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue.Don't make up your mind and then go looking…

— Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

— Honore de Balzac

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on…

— Thomas Carlyle