Statistics Quotes - Page 2

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

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

Statistics are for losers.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.

Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.