Statistics Quotes

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

No one-liner can ever be optimal.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

I think, traditionally, when the federal government has gathered statistics, it's been done in silos, so every agency really focuses on the statistics that are important to agency.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!