Statistics Quotes

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

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

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.