Statistics Quotes

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.

Who then will explain the explanation?

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.

When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

Luck is statistics taken personally.

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Training was one thing, reality another.

You know my methods. Apply them.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.