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Written by The Famous Quotes Team
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Levenstein Quotes
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang Quotes
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
98% of all statistics are made up.
Author Unknown Quotes
Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.
Author Unknown Quotes
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Author Unknown Quotes
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
Author Unknown Quotes
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.
Bobby Bragan Quotes
The average human has one breast and one testicle.
Des McHale Quotes
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
George Gallup Quotes
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
Gregg Easterbrookin Quotes
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....
H.G. Wells Quotes
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joe Stalin Quotes
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
Laplace Quotes
After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damned lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of.
Leonard Courtney Quotes
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
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."
Mark Twain Quotes
I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.
Mrs. Robert A. Taft Quotes
A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions.
M.J. Moroney Quotes
Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.
Paul Brodeur Quotes
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Rex Stout Quotes
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.
Theodor Billroth Quotes
Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William W. Watt Quotes
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty."
W.A. Wallis Quotes
Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.
W.I.E. Gates Quotes
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