Statistics Quotes

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.

Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

Statistics are designed to keep you safe.

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.