Statistics Quotes
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
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Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
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Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
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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.
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This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the Barack Obama administration are not believable.
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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.
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Facts speak louder than statistics.
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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?
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I live by statistics, so if look at U.S. Census statistics regarding families making over $100,000 dollars a year, 93% of them have broadband internet at home.
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Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
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Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.
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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
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There's going to be a big impact there for a number of weeks. It's big enough to show up in the national statistics.
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I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely reliable.
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
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If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
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You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.
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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
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All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality.
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I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.
