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“Fate laughs at probabilities.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.”

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Author:Andrew Lang

“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”

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Author:Rex Stout

“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.”

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Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.”

“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.”

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Author:George Canning

“This book fills a much-needed gap.”

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Author:Moses Hadas

“A fool must now and then be right, by chance”

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Author:William Cowper

“Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?”

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Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.”

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Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.”

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Author:Hilaire Belloc

“The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.”

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Book:Social statistics

Source: Social statistics

“It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.”

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Author:Robert Hooke