Famous statistics quotations

   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.  Nice Word by Louis D. Brandeis

   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.  Meaningful Quotation by George Gallup

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.  Good Quote by Andrew Lang

   Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....  Wise Phrase by H.G. Wells, The Undying Fire

   One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.  Wise Phrase by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   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.  Famous Saying by Arthur Conan Doyle

   Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.  Nice Word by W.I.E. Gates

   Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.  Meaningful Quotation by Gregg Easterbrook

   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.  Good Quote by Bobby Bragan, 1963

   There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies and statistics.  Wise Phrase by Benjamin Disraeli, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain because he quotes Disraeli in Autobiography

   Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.  Wise Phrase by Author Unknown

   Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.  Famous Saying by William W. Watt

   Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.  Nice Word by Aaron Levenstein

   98% of all statistics are made up.  Meaningful Quotation by Author Unknown

   The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.  Good Quote by Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités, 1820

   Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.  Wise Phrase by Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct

   Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.  Wise Phrase by Author Unknown

   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.  Famous Saying by Mrs. Robert A. Taft

   The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.  Nice Word by Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945

   Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.  Meaningful Quotation by Author Unknown



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