Statistics Quotes - Page 10

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics.

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist.

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

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

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.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.