Statistics Quotes - Page 4

• The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

  Hubert M. Blalock

  Funny, Humorous, Science

  Hubert M. Blalock (1972). “Social statistics”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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• I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

  Koren Zailckas

  Thinking, Numbers, Stories

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• But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

  Joseph Butler

  Life, Guides, Calculus

  'The Analogy of Religion' (1736) 'Introduction'

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• If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

  Edward Tufte

  Numbers, Wrong Number, Boring

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• There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Running, Long, People

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.192, Macmillan

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• I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

  Luis Bunuel

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• Who then will explain the explanation?

  Lord Byron

  Explanation

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• Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Humility, Stupidity

  "Sentimental Education". Book by Gustave Flaubert, 1869.

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• What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Choices

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• We made too many wrong mistakes.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Mistake

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.36, Workman Publishing

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• Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lying, Thinking, Leader

  "The Last of the Masters". Book by Philip K. Dick, p. 337, 1954.

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• The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Personality, Flesh, Way

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

  Edwin Balmer

  Stupid, Vanity, Egotism

  Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “When Worlds Collide”, p.47, Macmillan

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• The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Life, Motivational, Jobs

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• Statistics do not speak for themselves.

  Milton Friedman

  Speak

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Science, Data

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.456, Best Books on

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• Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Knowing, Miracle

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Change, Education

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rotten wood cannot be carved.

  Confucius

  Rotten, Woods

  Confucius (2014). “The Analects”, p.1, Penguin

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• Statistics is the grammar of science.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Data, Grammar

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• Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.

  Mark Getty

  Data Collection, Oil, Intellectual

  "@Thinking Digital: Don't fight pirates, copy them" by Kevin Anderson, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2009.

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• USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Math, Science

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Math, Science

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• Without analysis, no synthesis.

  Friedrich Engels

  Science, Analysis, Synthesis

  Friedrich Engels (1935). “Herr Eugen Dühring's revolution in science [anti-Dühring]”

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• How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

  Patrick Swayze

  Attitude, Men, Dead Man

  "Patrick Swayze: 'Chemo is Hell on Wheels'", www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2008.

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