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That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.
— John W. Campbell
Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious.
— Patrick Weekes
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
— Stanley Marcus
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zeno was concerned with three problems ... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
— Bertrand Russell
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
— Lars Peter Hansen
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
— Howard Whitley Eves
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
— George Bernard Shaw
Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.
— Thomas Szasz
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.
— Florence Nightingale
The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!
— Leonard Ravenhill
I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.
— Maurizio Cattelan
Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.
— Benjamin R. Smith
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
— Thomas Carlyle
A life saved is a statistic; a person hurt is an anecdote. Statistics are invisible; anecdotes are salient.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.
— Henci Goer
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination.
— Andrew Lang
Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.
— Arthur C. Clarke
All statistics have outliers.
— Nenia Campbell
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
— William Blake
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
— Thomas Carlyle
No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
— Bernie Siegel
Statistics are for losers.
— Scotty Bowman
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
— William Gibson
Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?
— Philip K. Dick
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
— Confucius
The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
— Thomas Aquinas
The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.
— Jim Berger
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.
— Mark Twain
Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
— Albert Einstein
Statistics are designed to keep you safe.
— Jenny Diski
Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order.
— Richelle Mead
Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.
— Noel Annan, Baron Annan
...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.
— Ruth Dugdall
According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.
— Morey Amsterdam
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
— Arthur Eddington
Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Luck is statistics taken personally.
— Penn Jillette
Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.
— Woody Hayes
Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
— Bradley Efron
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
— George Bernard Shaw
I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
— Matthew Gray Gubler
Every thought is an afterthought.
— Hannah Arendt
Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.
— Omar Khayyam
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
— Heinrich Heine
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
— William Godwin
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
— Edwin Balmer
Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.
— Norman Cousins
Statistics is the grammar of science.
— Karl Pearson
A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspects of reality: statistics.
— Yuval Noah Harari
The religion of one seems madness unto another.
— Thomas Browne
So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.
— Charles Wheelan
It is the unrepentant worship of statistics that forms the true orthodoxy of any modern police department.
— David Simon
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
— Claude Bernard
Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Damn description, it is always disgusting.
— Lord Byron
Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
— Michael Crichton
When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.
— Patricia K. Kuhl
children not allocated their own seat do not appear in listed victim numbers in airline crash statistics.
— Glenn Meade
There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.
— Jim Sensenbrenner
Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.
— Billy Graham
While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
— William Bernbach
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
— Alan Greenspan
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
— Josefina Vazquez Mota
