Statistics Quotes - Page 6

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.

God is just a statistics.

Probability is the very guide of life.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously we should all be saved a lot of trouble.

Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.

'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.

43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.