Statistics Quotes

• Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Stubborn

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• Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

  Evan Esar

  Science, Math, Experts

  Esar's Comic Dictionary

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• Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

  Winston Churchill

  Fake, Analytics, Statistician

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

  Edmund Berkeley

  Science, Answers, Problem

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• There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Lying

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• All models are wrong, but some are useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, Metrics, Mathematics

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• Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

  W. Allen Wallis

  Wise, Decision, Body

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• The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Systematic, Prudent, Essentials

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• Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as healthy as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don't let the statistics that someone else created affect you.

  Esther Hicks

  Mad, Sick, Healthy

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• Statistics is the grammar of science.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Data, Grammar

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• Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

  Evan Esar

  Business, Definitions, Facts

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• Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

  Irving R. Levine

  Science, Littles, Bikinis

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• Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

  Woody Hayes

  Average, Rivers, Feet

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• Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Science, Objectivity, Victory

  The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 173)

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• Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fall, Glasses, Water

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• Luck is statistics taken personally.

  Penn Jillette

  Taken, Luck

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• Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

  George E. P. Box

  Falling In Love, Artist, Habit

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• Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Common Sense, Mind, Prejudice

  Quoted in Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein (1950)

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• It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

  Frederick Mosteller

  Lying, Easy, Easier

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• An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Friendship, Depressing

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

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• To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

  Florence Nightingale

  God, Nursing, Science

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• Why speculate when you can calculate?

  John C. Baez

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• Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

  Morris Kline

  Ignorance, Math, Theory

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