Top Statistics Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Statistics quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Navjot Singh Sidhu
Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
Collection: Statistics
Image of Thomas Browne
The religion of one seems madness unto another.
- Thomas Browne
Collection: Statistics
Image of John W. Campbell
That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.
- John W. Campbell
Collection: Statistics
Image of Philip K. Dick
It's not what happened but how it is told.
- Philip K. Dick
Collection: Statistics
Image of Philip K. Dick
Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.
- Philip K. Dick
Collection: Statistics
Image of John C. Baez
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.
- John C. Baez
Collection: Statistics
Image of John C. Baez
Why speculate when you can calculate?
- John C. Baez
Collection: Statistics
Image of Peter Cook
We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.
- Peter Cook
Collection: Statistics
Image of Brian Kernighan
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
- Brian Kernighan
Collection: Statistics
Image of Jim Berger
The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.
- Jim Berger
Collection: Statistics
Image of Michael Faraday
Work, finish, publish.
- Michael Faraday
Collection: Statistics
Image of Keith Waterhouse
Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.
- Keith Waterhouse
Collection: Statistics
Image of Tobias Dantzig
The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.
- Tobias Dantzig
Collection: Statistics
Image of Fredric Brown
No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.
- Fredric Brown
Collection: Statistics
Image of Joe Gayton
Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.
- Joe Gayton
Collection: Statistics
Image of Abel Aganbegyan
You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.
- Abel Aganbegyan
Collection: Statistics
Image of August Wilhelm von Hofmann
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Collection: Statistics
Image of Maurice Kendall
If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously we should all be saved a lot of trouble.
- Maurice Kendall
Collection: Statistics
Image of Lester del Rey
Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.
- Lester del Rey
Collection: Statistics
Image of Edmond de Goncourt
Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.
- Edmond de Goncourt
Collection: Statistics
Image of Ian Hacking
Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.
- Ian Hacking
Collection: Statistics
Image of Lawrence Kasdan
It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.
- Lawrence Kasdan
Collection: Statistics
Image of Elliott Sober
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics.
- Elliott Sober
Collection: Statistics
Image of Bernie Siegel
No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
- Bernie Siegel
Collection: Statistics
Image of Mitt Romney
I bathe in statistics.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Statistics
Image of Steven Wright
43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
- Steven Wright
Collection: Statistics
Image of Horace
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
- Horace
Collection: Statistics
Image of John Ralston Saul
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
- John Ralston Saul
Collection: Statistics
Image of Ashleigh Brilliant
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Collection: Statistics
Image of Lord Byron
Damn description, it is always disgusting.
- Lord Byron
Collection: Statistics
Image of Arthur C. Clarke
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Collection: Statistics
Image of Andrew Carnegie
That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.
- Andrew Carnegie
Collection: Statistics
Image of Hippocrates
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
- Hippocrates
Collection: Statistics
Image of Arthur Hugh Clough
Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.
- Arthur Hugh Clough
Collection: Statistics
Image of Arthur C. Clarke
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Collection: Statistics
Image of Lord Byron
Who then will explain the explanation?
- Lord Byron
Collection: Statistics
Image of Charles Dickens
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.
- Charles Dickens
Collection: Statistics
Image of W. Edwards Deming
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
- W. Edwards Deming
Collection: Statistics
Image of Philip K. Dick
Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
- Philip K. Dick
Collection: Statistics
Image of Philip K. Dick
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.
- Philip K. Dick
Collection: Statistics
Image of Aleister Crowley
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
- Aleister Crowley
Collection: Statistics
Image of Michael Crichton
Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
- Michael Crichton
Collection: Statistics
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Statistics
Image of Brian Eno
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
- Brian Eno
Collection: Statistics
Image of F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Collection: Statistics
Image of Ronald Fisher
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.
- Ronald Fisher
Collection: Statistics
Image of Arthur Conan Doyle
You know my methods. Apply them.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Collection: Statistics
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Statistics
Image of Harrison Ford
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
- Harrison Ford
Collection: Statistics
Image of Stephen Jay Gould
No one-liner can ever be optimal.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Collection: Statistics