To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
Statistics are there to be broken.
Formatting is no substitute for writing.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
Work, finish, publish.
Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.
You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food.
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.
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