Statistics Quotes

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

Since when was genius found respectable?

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

I bathe in statistics.

We know nothing until intuition agrees.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

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

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist.

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.