Statistics Quotes - Page 5

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Formatting is no substitute for writing.

If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Even theories must have foundations.

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

Round numbers are always false.

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Statistics are there to be broken.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.