Quotes About Using Statistics

#1. The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

Claude Bernard

#2. This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.

Jacque Fresco

#3. There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

Howard Moskowitz

#4. I don't like to think because thinking leads me to overthinking and overthinking leads me to depression. Making decisions without thinking is often suicidal; therefore, I force myself to think without overthinking.

Ben Tolosa

#5. To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive.

Fannie Flagg

#6. To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Carlos Castaneda

#7. St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

Bertrand Russell

#8. Drama often obscures the real issues

Jenny Holzer

#9. If history judged nations by their pet theories, no one could ever doubt that Americans were creative.

Jacob M. Appel

#10. Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Evan Esar

#11. I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

Dave Eggers

#12. The world is producing more and more data, ever faster and faster. Yet, as the New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge."3* Statistics is the most powerful tool we have for using information to some meaningful end,

Charles Wheelan

#13. The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

David Hockney

#14. Most of all, I am thankful for Lily, who, since she entered my life, has taught me everything I know about patience and kindness and meeting adversity with quiet dignity and grace. No one makes me laugh harder, or want to hug them tighter. You have truly lived up to the promise of man's best friend.

Steven Rowley

#15. Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.

Zeena Schreck

#16. I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Sue Grafton