Statistics Quotes - Page 14

• Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.

  Chris Mooney

  Science, Weather, Climate

  "Dear Donald Trump: Winter Does Not Disprove Global Warming" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. January 02, 2014.

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• Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

  James A. Garfield

  Science, Government, Law

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.455, Best Books on

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• I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses can follow. For most businesses there are both compelling reasons to be responsible and compelling statistics that validate that responsible businesses do better according to traditional financial metrics. Of course, how you define "responsible" is somewhat of a conundrum.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Responsibility, Thinking

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• In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

  Stephen Leacock

  Lying, Fall, Science

  Stephen Leacock (1939). “Model memoirs and other sketches from simple to serious”

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• Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

  Lester del Rey

  Sin, Misinterpretation, Humans

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• The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

  Albert Einstein

  New York, Cat, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

  Stephen Colbert

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Truth, Math, Degrees

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “A Treatise on Probability”, p.322, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.

  Louis Armstrong

  Mouths, Parliament, Effective Communication

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• I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

  Frank Deford

  Believe, Wrestling, World

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• It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

  Sophia Bush

  Hollywood, Has Beens, Jokes

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• The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.

  Ann Coulter

  Religious, Tone, Arguing

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.2, Crown Forum

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• I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Smoking, Causes, Found

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

  Joseph Stalin

  Men, Tragedy, Dies

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• The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

  David Knopfler

  Challenges, Needs, Truth Is

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• Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

  Charles Dickens

  Hard Times, Want, Facts

  Hard Times bk. 1, ch. 1 (1854)

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• In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

  Francis Crick

  Strong, Reading, Math

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• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

  Paul Fix

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

  David Robertson

  Teenage, Gambling, Evil

  "Study: Internet gambling stakes are high". www.cnn.com. March 17, 2002.

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• The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

  Alexander Jablokov

  Truth, Honesty, Long

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• Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of their thoughts. The failures of science do not begin with flawed evidence or fumbled statistics; they begin with personal self-deception and an unjustified sense of knowing.

  Robert A. Burton

  Humility, Self, Knowing

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.170, Macmillan

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• It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.'

  Roy Spencer

  Strong, Average, Weather

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• Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry's complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising.

  Steve Schmidt

  Home, Reality, College

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• He is so efficient. He seems to be playing smarter, more confidently. I think they have given him more responsibility. He's very, very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes. The statistics show he has three interceptions, but in reality it's only one. The others were deflected passes by receivers who should have caught balls.

  Pat Haden

  Mistake, Responsibility, Reality

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• Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

  Ebbe Skovdahl

  Soccer, Football, Ideas

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