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Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.
Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.
Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.
The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.
When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.
What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life.
There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.
Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.
No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.