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• Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, Metrics, Mathematics

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• Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don't report it as much.

  Ashley Judd

  Suicide, Teenager, Men

  "Helen : Film Review & Interview with Ashley Judd". Interview with Joseph Smigelski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

  Arthur Eddington

  Results, Theory

  Sir Arthur Eddington (2013). “New Pathways In Science”, p.177, Read Books Ltd

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• I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

  Ben Horowitz

  Believe, Calculus, I Believe

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• You see, but you do not observe.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Curiosity, Detectives, Holmes

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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

  August Wilhelm von Hofmann

  Hypothesis, Method, Show Me

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• Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

  Dick Cavett

  Thinking, Coincidence, Billions

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• In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

  Stephen Leacock

  Lying, Fall, Computer

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• The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Business, Opportunity, Loyal Customers

  "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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• All generalizations are false, including this one.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Truth, Inspirational Life

  Attributed in "A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense" by Mark Twain, Seven Stories Press, (p. 61), January 4, 2011.

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• There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mustache, Looks

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• Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2

  MaryAnne Tebedo

  Funny, Witty, Pregnancy

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• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Roots, Missing

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

  Douglas Adams

  Assumption, Knows, Mislead

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.95, Ballantine Books

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• Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

  Bobby Bragan

  Sports, Baseball, Ice

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• over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

  David Mitchell

  Funny, Humor, Made

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

  Francis Bacon

  Choices, Understanding, Ill

  Francis Bacon (1985). “The Essays”, p.423, Penguin UK

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• Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

  Noel Annan, Baron Annan

  Decision, Academic, Staff

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• An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

  Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Men

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• Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

  John Tukey

  Answers, Made, Experimental Science

  Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Mar. 1962

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• The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

  Aleister Crowley

  Pay, Customers

  "Magick Without Tears". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 21, 1954.

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• ...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Individual, Certainty

  Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Watson in The Sign of Four (1890).

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• The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can seldom or never make experiments for himself, he has to accept the data of daily experience, and discuss as best he can the relations of a whole group of changes; he cannot, like the physicist, narrow down the issue to the effect of one variation at a time. The problems of statistics are in this sense far more complex than the problems of physics.

  Udny Yule

  Science, Opportunity, Data

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Verbs, Nouns, Biodiversity

  No More Secondhand God (1963) p. 28 (poem written in 1940)

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• Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

  Aldous Huxley

  Guarantees, Virtue, Higher Education

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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