Accurate Quote by Will Self

“The statistical method shows the facts in the light of the ideal average but does not give us a picture of their empirical reality.…

— C.G. Jung

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

— Vince Lombardi

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political…

— Adolphe Quetelet

Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to…

— Nicholson Baker

“The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based…

— Benjamin Graham

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

— Jean Baudrillard

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

— Steven Pinker

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately…

— Francis Galton

“The picturing of data allows us to be sensitive not only to the multiple hypotheses that we hold, but to the many more we…

— Tukey 1974

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

— Michael Shermer

“Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky]…

— Michael Lewis

“The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence…

— Daniel Kahneman