Statistics Quotes
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
Rudolf Arnheim -
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
Dan Castellaneta
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The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.
Katie Davis -
Statistics are the heart of democracy.
Simeon Strunsky -
Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
Bradley Efron -
Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
Wilhelm Stekel -
Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
Ebbe Skovdahl -
According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle.
Conan O'Brien
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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
Hal Clement -
I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead
Norman Tebbit -
One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?
Bill Gates -
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
Alfred E. Perlman -
Statistics are for losers.
Scotty Bowman -
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.
Thomas Sowell
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Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.
Anthony Standen -
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Mike Schmidt -
When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
Joseph Stalin -
I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.
Red Auerbach -
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.
Stephen Spender -
Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.
Randy Alcorn
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The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
Simon Sinek -
Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.
Brendan Rodgers -
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
Adolphe Quetelet -
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
William Gibson