|
|
 |
Listings |
 |
Aaron Levenstein
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
|
Andrew Lang
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
|
Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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.
|
Author Unknown
Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.
|
Author Unknown
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
|
Bobby Bragan, 1963
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.
|
G. O. Ashley
Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
|
George Gallup
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
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
|
Jean Baudrillard
The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
|
Joseph Stalin
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
Browse Categories |
|
|
|
|
