Quotes about statistics
statistics opinion
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
statistics used type
The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.
statistics clients investing
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it. Thomas Szasz
statistics spots made
43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot. Steven Wright
statistics doe mathematical-models
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Stephen Hawking
statistics belief unbelief
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. Sigmund Freud
statistics
warranted by all of the statistics we have.
statistics one-liner optimal
No one-liner can ever be optimal. Stephen Jay Gould
statistics theory values
Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.
statistics machines interpretation
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations. Umberto Eco
statistics praise natural
To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it. Quentin Crisp
statistics outsiders dignity
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert Frost
statistics literature quarters
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. Rita Mae Brown
statistics madness seems
The religion of one seems madness unto another. Thomas Browne
statistics systematic principles
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science. Richard Courant
statistics world bent
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. Roger Ascham
statistics poet individual
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species. Samuel Johnson
statistics demonstration should
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! William Blake
statistics ratios reason
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
statistics poetic moments
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
statistics elements logic
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. William Godwin
statistics matter cures
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters. Hippocrates
statistics born resources
We are just statistics, born to consume resources. Horace
statistics afterthought
Every thought is an afterthought. Hannah Arendt
statistics able toes
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion George Bernard Shaw
statistics wave counting
"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics". F. Scott Fitzgerald
statistics systematic prudent
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details. Erwin Schrodinger
statistics scripture delight
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... H. G. Wells
statistics tests hypothesis
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. Milton Friedman
statistics speak
Statistics do not speak for themselves.
statistics doe audience
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience. Ilka Chase
statistics systematic facts
Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. Ian Hacking
statistics ninety percent
Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus. Keith Waterhouse