Statistics Quotes - Page 14

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.

The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.