Famous Quotes & Sayings

Enough is enough. I think the voters are going to make Sanford an unemployment statistic in June.

Right now, we've got one in a row. I'm not really a statistics guy. I don't use a lot of that for motivation.

Erwin Schrodinger

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

Horace

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Hannah Arendt

Every thought is an afterthought.

George Bernard Shaw

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

H. G. Wells

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

Karl Pearson

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Milton Friedman

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Milton Friedman

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

Ian Hacking

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

Hippocrates

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

Quentin Crisp

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

Lawrence Kasdan

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Lady Gaga

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.

Peter Cook

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

John Maynard Keynes

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

Paul Harvey

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

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

Michael Crichton

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Mitt Romney

I bathe in statistics.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Probability is the very guide of life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Ilka Chase

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

Maurice Chevalier

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

Michael Faraday

Work, finish, publish.

John Ralston Saul

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

Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Henry A. Kissinger

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

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

Thomas Pynchon

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

William James

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.