Statistics Quotes
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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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
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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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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Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
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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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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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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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The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.
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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
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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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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
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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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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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Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
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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.
