Statistics Quotes - page 2

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. (Ian Hacking)
In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely. View quote
John Templeton
Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices. View quote
Benjamin Graham
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. View quote
Guy Debord
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. View quote
Ernie Banks
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them. View quote
Lewis Carroll
No honest historian can take part with - or against - the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should be merely a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. View quote
Henry Adams
In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged. View quote
Rudolf Virchow
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics. (Jaron Lanier)
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well. View quote
Robert Sternberg
I am not interested in statistics that tell me things are not as bad as they seem. Things are horrible. I have met people crying about what is happening, but there is no solution yet. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening. I don't care what the statistics say. View quote
Bill Cosby
No matter what the statistics say there is always a way. View quote
Bernie Siegel
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about. View quote
Bernie Siegel
If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate. View quote
Vanilla Ice
Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages to drop and non-wage benefits to shrivel, creating worse inequality than statistics reveal. View quote
Guy Standing
Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament. View quote
Liv Ullmann
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. (Michel De Certeau)
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. View quote
Morris Kline
You do not define the First Amendment. It defines you. And it is bigger than you. That's how freedom works. It also demands you do your homework. Again and again, I hear gun owners say, how can we believe anything the anti-gun media says when they can't even get the facts right? For too long, you have swallowed manufactured statistics and fabricated technical support from anti-gun organizations that wouldn't know a semi-auto from a sharp stick. And it shows. You fall for it every time. View quote
Charlton Heston
However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today. View quote
Bob Filner
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication. View quote
Casey Kasem