Statistics Quotes
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
Richard Feynman -
Facts speak louder than statistics.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
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Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
Thomas Sowell -
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.
Esther Hicks -
Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.
Bill Gates -
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar -
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.
Richard Feynman -
This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the Barack Obama administration are not believable.
Nat Hentoff
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Statistics Fiction in its most uninteresting form.
Evan Esar -
Why would anyone be interested in my little personal story if we can do without Homer's or Shakespeare's? Someone who truly loves literature is like a person of faith. The believer knows very well that there is nothing at all at the bureau of vital statistics about the Jesus that truly counts for him.
Elena Ferrante -
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
Thomas Carlyle -
It seems obvious to me that the more queer books there are in the wolrd, the more queer kids we reach with the message that they are not alone, the fewer LGBT kids become one of these grim statistics.
Ellen Wittlinger -
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.
Richard Feynman -
Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as healthy as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don't let the statistics that someone else created affect you.
Esther Hicks
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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.
Ernest Lanigan -
The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
Evan Esar -
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
Evan Davis -
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
Norm MacDonald -
The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say confidently that the summit of Rum Doodle is 40,000 1/2 feet above sea level.
William Ernest Bowman