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• When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Successful, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Names, Charity, Christ

  In Bohemia In Bohemia

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• The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and politician, began a study of national ethnic statistics in 1871, convinced that the majority of Germans would prove to be of relatively pure Nordic descent. The results of his studies proved otherwise. According to Virchow, the obvious solution was to set about Nordicizing the debased German stock.

  Jim Keith

  Eugenics, Majority, Germany

  Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.12, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Goal, Physicians

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• [Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

  Evan Esar

  Science, Technology, Prove

  Esar's Comic Dictionary

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• I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.

  Ben Bernanke

  Country, Thinking, Data

  Interview with Arthur J. Rolnick, www.minneapolisfed.org. June 1, 2004.

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• All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Term, Ifs

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• Gethin Jenkins is one of the best loose-head props in the world. He hits up to 40 rucks a game, makes at least 10 carries and even more tackles. Those are amazing statistics for a prop and he is a very intelligent rugby player.

  Warren Gatland

  Intelligent, Player, Games

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• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  Saint Augustine

  Math, Ignorant, Doe

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• Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the first place, by making home-ownership statistics the holy grail, for which everything else was to be sacrificed, including commonsense standards for making home loans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Home, Government, Holy Grail

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a history of incredible suffering. This is what we call the transmission of family sin, in which these unconscious patterns get carried on for generations in a legacy of pain. When they are not brought to awareness and worked through, each generation just automatically enacts them.

  Connie Zweig

  Children, Pain, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Christian, Commitment, Nerves

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• My experience of working on this show, even though there is so much about sex and sexuality, and we find out a lot of facts and statistics that are very interesting, in their own right, I found that I started talking about relationships more, and the emotions, the difficulties and the challenges. So, I became far more open about that, which I think is probably an indication with the show itself.

  Michael Sheen

  Sex, Thinking, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• Just providing information about how bad things are, or the statistics and data on incarceration by themselves, does lead to more depression and resignation and is not empowering. The information has to be presented in a way that's linked to the piece about encouraging students to think critically and creatively about how they might respond to injustice, and how young people have responded to injustice in the past.

  Michelle Alexander

  Past, Thinking, Data

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

  John Novak

  Overcoming, Going Out, Improvement

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• Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Science, Important

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Chartism, II

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• Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Years, Variables

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Men, Prove

  Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins

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• I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually happen would be that I should make out Pt (normal) and say to myself that would be about 50:1; pretty good but as it may not be normal we'd best not be too certain, or 100:1; even allowing that it may not be normal it seems good enough and whether one would be content with that or would require further work would depend on the importance of the conclusion and the difficulty of obtaining suitable experience.

  William Sealy Gosset

  Science, Giving, Would Be

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• Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Disaster, Shows

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

  Ronald Fisher

  Groups, Causes, Steps

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• That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

  John W. Campbell

  Language, Trouble

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• Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, School, Looks

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 201.

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• Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.

  George Will

  Beautiful, Baseball, Records

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• Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Race, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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