Quotes About Facts And Statistics

#1. The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. - Author: Ellen Glasgow

#2. Facts speak louder than statistics. - Author: Geoffrey Streatfeild

#3. Algebras are geometric facts which are proved. - Author: Omar Khayyam

#4. The boys went off to fight with swords while girls had to learn dog barks and owl hoots. No wonder princesses were so impotent in fairy tales, she thought. If all they could do was smile, stand straight, and speak to squirrels, then what choice did they have but to wait for a boy to rescue them? - Author: Soman Chainani

#5. To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall. - Author: William Winwood Reade

#6. When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet ... to not feel like you have to do something ... I don't think you're human. - Author: A. J. Buckley

#7. It is Christ living in the soul by faith that makes the body a living sacrifice, - Author: Matthew Henry

#8. A conversation should end when the other person starts judging you. - Author: Saru Singhal

#9. The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate. - Author: Claude Bernard

#10. Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. - Author: Mark Twain

#11. The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must. - Author: Edward Abbey

#12. I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am. - Author: Tamar Braxton

#13. True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar. - Author: RuPaul

#14. Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. - Author: Ian Hacking

#15. Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics. - Author: Soledad O'Brien

#16. What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating. - Author: Kim Cattrall

#17. The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. - Author: Claude Bernard

#18. Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever.
Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels. - Author: Florence Nightingale

#19. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable. - Author: Mark Twain

#20. Stories are not lists, decks, Power-Points, flip charts, lectures, pleas, instructions, regulations, manifestos, calculations, lesson plans, threats, statistics, evidence, orders, or raw facts. - Author: Peter Guber

#21. If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. - Author: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#22. And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation. - Author: Phil Lesh

#23. ...the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics. - Author: Oskar Morgenstern

#24. All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak. - Author: Gabourey Sidibe

#25. You should get a permit, but don't attempt to outwit, and here's a tidbit." I pointed to my shoulder, "This is my armpit. - Author: Penny Reid

#26. I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they work and what they do, and what they do often is more progressive. I would like to see a lot of kids of different ages, maybe even some adults, work together on a project. - Author: Seymour Papert

#27. I craved knowledge. I craved facts. I searched for them like lifebuoys in the sea. But statistics are tricky things. - Author: Matt Haig

#28. Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources. - Author: Jane Brody

#29. The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data. - Author: Ronald Fisher

#30. We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction. - Author: Aneurin Bevan

#31. Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. - Author: Evan Esar

#32. I used to be someone.

Someone named Jenna Fox.

That's what they tell me. But I am more than a name. More than they tell me. More than the facts and statistics they fill me with. More than the video clips they make me watch.

More. But I'm not sure what. - Author: Mary E. Pearson