Top 100 Quotes About Statistics
#1. So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.
Charles Wheelan
#3. The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.
Story Musgrave
#4. Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
Ebbe Skovdahl
#5. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
Rita Mae Brown
#6. It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.
Richard P. Feynman
#7. While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#8. To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.
Michael Healy
#9. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version
George Orwell
#10. Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
Philip K. Dick
#11. Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.
Ludwig Von Mises
#12. A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
William James
#13. In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States.
-- Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gennaro F. Vito
#14. My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
Dave Hickey
#15. That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.
Andrew Carnegie
#16. At this stage, don't take any of your statistics too literally and don't let any single number dominate your strategic thinking.
Anonymous
#17. Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
Edward Dahlberg
#18. Damn description, it is always disgusting.
Lord Byron
#19. The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
Patricia Ireland
#20. It doesn't matter if everyone thinks something is not worthy enough, it doesn't matter what the statistics say, it doesn't matter when the whole world is against something you do, as long as it keeps you happy.
Zainab T. Khan
#21. Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.
Theodor Billroth
#22. In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock
#23. That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#25. The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
Richard Bach
#26. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.
Neil Gaiman
#27. One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
Thomas Sowell
#28. There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.
Anya Kamenetz
#29. Checquy statistics indicate that 15 percent of all men in hats are concealing horns.
Daniel O'Malley
#30. The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
Erwin Schrodinger
#31. Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
Daniel Kahneman
#32. It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.
Albert Einstein
#33. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
Ambrose Bierce
#34. Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
Scott Dikkers
#35. I have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.
W.P. Kinsella
#36. As a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care - less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor's degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six.
Penny Reid
#37. I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.
LeBron James
#38. If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
Edward Tufte
#39. Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.
Clive Thompson
#40. The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
Edward De Bono
#41. When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn't wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#42. We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
William Bernbach
#43. People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
Margaret Millar
#45. In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
Norm MacDonald
#46. The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
Claude Bernard
#47. Forget the statistics ... we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.
Liam Neeson
#48. To his family, Pasteur remarks in frustration, "How difficult it is to obtain the triumph of truth! Opposition is a useful stimulant, but bad faith is such a pitiable thing. How is it that they are not struck with the results shown by statistics?
Bill Wasik
#49. Who then will explain the explanation?
Lord Byron
#50. Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
Jerry Only
#51. Statistical fact: cops will never pull over a man in a sweet van
if he's carrying forty pounds of sinsemilla buds. Another fact:
ninety percent of all statistics are made up.
Daniel Younger
#52. David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.
(on David Johnson)
David Platt
#54. We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.
Peter Cook
#55. Statistics is like a high-caliber weapon: helpful when used correctly and potentially disastrous in the wrong hands.
Charles Wheelan
#56. What if one of her father's soldiers panicked and fired for no reason? Though pilots were carefully trained, mistakes happened and she didn't want to be included in a statistics report under "uh-oh, my bad."' (Kiara)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.
Alberto Manguel
#58. When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, 'Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin'-somethin'.' I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on 'SportsCenter.' Just add statistics.
Stuart Scott
#59. I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn't even think about my weight - but now I work hard at keeping healthy. Fortunately, my husband Richie is as much of a fitness buff as I am.
Raquel Welch
#60. Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.
Paul Brodeur
#61. Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."
P. J. O'Rourke
#62. I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
Albert Einstein
#63. 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.
Scarlett Johansson
#64. 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.
Mary E. Pearson
#65. God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#66. Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.
Leonhard Euler
#67. Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.
Lester Del Rey
#68. I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#69. Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
Dick Cavett
#70. The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
Florence Nightingale
#71. Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.
Will Self
#73. Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Hilaire Belloc
#74. It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter.
Persis Khambatta
#76. Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar
#77. They're nuts. Completely insane! I don't get this gambling thing. Didn't these people study statistics at university? Evidently not
Charles Stross
#78. We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
Aneurin Bevan
#79. Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!
Lou Engle
#80. I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
August Wilhelm Von Hofmann
#81. Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married. How is that our fault? Don't drag down my country's statistics just because you ran off and got hitched before you ever saw each other in a bad mood.
Stephen Colbert
#82. Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.
Jack Newfield
#83. We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Horace
#84. Crib death was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in the statistics, but it started to climb in the 1950s with the spread of mass vaccination against diseases of childhood.
Harris L Coulter
#85. Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay
#86. Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.
Richard Courant
#87. Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
Daniel Libeskind
#88. Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
Albert Einstein
#89. Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
Thomas Sowell
#90. Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.
Brendan Rodgers
#91. Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.
Milton Friedman
#92. Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail ... 15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#93. How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press.
Thabo Mbeki
#94. The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.
Brendan Rodgers
#95. A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
George Iles
#96. For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with a Mormon family. They're the nicest people I know.' So when I see these statistics that it's the most hated religion, I don't know where they're getting that from.
Brandon Flowers
#97. Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
Cameron Russell
#98. When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
Hippocrates
#99. 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
#100. According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.
Alafair Burke
