The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
God is just a statistics.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He would focus much on programs and statistics. What the Savior would want to know is the condition of our heart. He would want to know how we love and minister to those in our care, how we show our love to our spouse and family, and how we lighten their daily load. And the Savior would want to know how you and I grow closer to Him and to our Heavenly Father.
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.
Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
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