Statistics Quotes - Page 3

• Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

  Henry Clay

  Funny, Humorous, Teaching

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• Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

  Ilka Chase

  Doe, Audience, Dose

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• When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mind, Coincidence, Probability

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2014

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• I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Mistake, Science, Thinking

  Letter to General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 3 Aug. 1650 See Hand 10

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• I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead

  Norman Tebbit

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• [Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

  Francis Galton

  Cutting, Math, Men

  Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (pp. 62-3)

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• Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.

  Theodor Billroth

  Mirrors, Use, Virtue

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• The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

  Josiah Stamp

  Roots, Government, Village

  Some Economic Factors in Modern Life ch. 8 (1929)

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

  Keith Waterhouse

  Ninety, Five, Percent

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• I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Art, People, Mind

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• If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material. Our dealings with Nature are just like this.

  William James

  Irrelevance, Numbers, Tables

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.438, Courier Corporation

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• You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Thinking, Soul

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2011

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• Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Science, Building Up, Practicals

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Belief, Unbelief

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Details, Grasping, Features

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.68, Univ of California Press

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• Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

  H. G. Wells

  Delight, Scripture, Satan

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.6276, Delphi Classics

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• I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Bats, Use

  Washington Post On Bandwagon, Reagan Seeks to Stiffen Credibility Grip 20 April 1980 (A8)

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• If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Math, Science, Needs

  Quoted in N.T. Bailey's The Mathematical Approach to Biology and Medicine Chapter 2 (p. 23)

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• The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Race, Talking

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). “The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with "Reflections on religion" now in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

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• There are statistics out that say 20 year olds, 18 years olds think about sex 90 percent of the time. They only don't think about sex when they're eating, and that's rare.

  William H. Macy

  Sex, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.

  Jacque Fresco

  Support, Half, Want

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• Everything tries to be round.

  Black Elk

  Education, Trying, Mathematics

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

  Steve Jobs

  Design, Marketing, Elements

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• We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.

  William Bernbach

  Listening, Mold, Public Opinion

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• Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

  Eric Butterworth

  Strong, Average, Achievement

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