Statistics Quotes - Page 7

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.

Mathematics is a language

I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

Everything tries to be round.

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.