Claims Quote by Simon Sinek

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

— Robert Mayer

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a…

— Robert Hooke

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

— Tom Rath

“Numbers alone don’t convince anyone of anything.”

— Dimitri Maex

The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

— Anonymous

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

— George Canning

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

— Honore de Balzac

We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come…

— Martha Gellhorn

Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.

— Frederick Buechner

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

— Rene Thom

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace