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Statistics Quotes

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The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
John Tukey

Authors on Statistics Quotes: Philip K. Dick Albert Einstein Samuel Johnson Douglas Adams Richard Bach Edgar Rice Burroughs Arthur C. Clarke William Godwin Milton Friedman John Tukey William James Stephen Jay Gould John W. Campbell Evan Esar Ronald Fisher Winston Churchill Arthur Conan Doyle Aristotle William Blake Lord Byron Rita Mae Brown Hal Clement Gian-Carlo Rota Charles Dickens Henry Adams Ralph Waldo Emerson Niels Bohr Francis Bacon Elias Canetti Hippocrates Robert Solow Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Edmund Burke
2.
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
George A. Romero

3.
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell

4.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei

5.
Statistics is the grammar of science.
Karl Pearson

6.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

7.
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
Paul Harvey

8.
The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
Thomas Aquinas

9.
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
Marilyn vos Savant

10.
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Lord Dunsany

11.
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.
Holger Czukay

12.
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.
Leonhard Euler

13.
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
Aleister Crowley

14.
If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.
John Harvey-Jones

15.
According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.
Morey Amsterdam

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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey

17.
According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.
Jean-Claude Van Damme

18.
Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
John Tukey

19.
You see, but you do not observe.
Arthur Conan Doyle

20.
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious
Daniel Libeskind

21.
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
W. S. Gilbert

22.
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
Robert Solow

23.
Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.
Winston Churchill

24.
Whenever you can, count.
Francis Galton

25.
All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.
George E. P. Box

26.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Evan Esar

27.
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
Art Buchwald

28.
I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.
Fernando Torres

29.
I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
Matthew Gray Gubler

30.
Statistics are for losers.
Scotty Bowman

31.
Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.
Lester del Rey

32.
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
Niels Bohr

33.
We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.
Peter Cook

34.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

35.
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
Hilaire Belloc

36.
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
Bernard Nathanson

37.
Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.
George E. P. Box

38.
Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
Omar Khayyam

39.
I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
Louis Armstrong

40.
Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.
Robert Solow

41.
Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.
Lou Piniella

42.
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.
Edgar Rice Burroughs

43.
A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.
John Dee

44.
Everything flows, nothing stays still.
Heraclitus

45.
Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.
Rudolf Virchow

46.
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
David Hockney

47.
If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
Edward Tufte

48.
Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.
Philip K. Dick

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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud

50.
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
Charles Babbage