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“According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.”

Knows Men Twenties Fellows Statistics Seconds Prunes

Author:Morey Amsterdam

“I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.”

People Thinking Long Games Involved Baseball Boxes Score Statistics Hitting Percentages Pitching Calculating

Author:John M. Culkin

“And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.”

Ifs Future Ocean Standing Dignity Paid Bills California Hotel Statistics Slides

Author:Warren Zevon

“The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.”

“Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.”

World Sports Baseball Statistics

Author:Ford Frick

“I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.”

Care Games Interest Majors Baseball Balls Don't Care Statistics Minors Ball Games

Author:Ernest Lanigan

“Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.”

Firsts Interesting Baseball Coaches Statistics

Author:Jim Bouton

“Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way.”

Way Long Lying Opportunity Games Sports Opinion Boys Pieces Fans Figures Conversation Argument Baseball Average Available Appeals Statistics Division Convincing Participants Batting

Author:Leonard Koppett

“Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.”

Giving Country Problem Five Percent Baseball Statistics Unemployment Unemployed

Author:Andy Van Slyke

“Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.”

Facts Business Half Brother Statistics Savior Businessman Utility

Book:The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality

Source: The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality

“I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.”

Bigs Film Issues Female Thirds Filmmaker Statistics

Author:Ava DuVernay

“Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.”

Mankind Judgment Innocent Curse Statistics Assessment Good Judgment Merriment Innocent Life

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”

Source: The Heart of a Woman

“When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.”

Mind Humans Seems Statistics Human Mind Coincidence Probability

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so”

Pay Customers Statistics

Author:Aleister Crowley

“Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!”

Despair Refuse Live By Statistics Council Prophetic

Author:Lou Engle

“In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged.”

Ends Shows Growth Community Quality Compassion Economic Activity Members Statistics Judged Disadvantaged Graphs

Author:Carmen Lawrence

“It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.”

Results Theory Statistics

Book:New Pathways In Science

Source: New Pathways In Science

“Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.”

“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”

Inspiring Plans Military Planning Statistics

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.”

Values Focus Expected Unexpected Statistics Quantity Summary Statistician

Author:John Tukey

“A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Body Age Lying Numbers Add Rounds Flats Statistics Inches Know Me Curves Measurement

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the new racism. To not acknowledge those statistics, to think of that as a 'black problem' and not an American problem. To believe, as a majority of FOX viewers do, that reverse-racism is a bigger problem than racism, that's racist.”

Thinking Believe Problem Black Republican Racism Solutions Bigger Majority Inequality Acknowledge Racist Statistics Reverse Foxes Viewers Outrageous Bigger Problems

Author:Bill Maher

“The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.”

Stills Facts Science Causes Goal Cases Observation Statistics Physicians

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and politician, began a study of national ethnic statistics in 1871, convinced that the majority of Germans would prove to be of relatively pure Nordic descent. The results of his studies proved otherwise. According to Virchow, the obvious solution was to set about Nordicizing the debased German stock.”

Results Study Century Politician Pure Prove Solutions Concern Mark Majority Obvious Convinced Germany Purity Statistics 19th Century Eugenics Descent Nordic

Book:Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

Source: Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

“The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.”

Names Christ Charity Organized Statistics Cautious

Author:John Boyle O'Reilly

“When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.”

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth.”

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter of record that thousands of the victims of this superstitious rite have been saved from smallpox by the immunizing potency of death. But it is a fact that the official statistics of England and Wales show unmistakably that, while vaccination has killed ten times more people than smallpox, there has been a decrease in smallpox concomitant with the decrease in vaccination. . . It might be appropriately asked, in the words of the Vaccination Inquirer”

“Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.”

Facts Business Figures Definitions Statistics Unreliable

Author:Evan Esar

“[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.”

Men Path Cutting Tools Difficulty Mathematics Math Bars Opening Pursue Mathematical Statistics Formidable Statistician Thickets

Author:Francis Galton

“I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as the foundation of medical science. ... Statistics ... apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still [uncertain or] indeterminate. ... There will always be some indeterminism ... in all the sciences, and more in medicine than in any other. But man's intellectual conquest consists in lessening and driving back indeterminism in proportion as he gains ground for determinism by the help of the experimental method.”

“We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.”

“For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.”

Doe Universe Perfect Education Wise Mathematics Creator Statistics Fabric Minimum Maximum Calculus Euler Most Wise

Book:The Rational Mechanics of Flexible Or Elastic Bodies 1638 - 1788: Introduction to Vol. X and XI

Source: The Rational Mechanics of Flexible Or Elastic Bodies 1638 - 1788: Introduction to Vol. X and XI

“It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.”

People Long Artist Social Cases Economic Picks Profound Statistics Great Art Social Change Great Artist Statistician Springsteen

Author:Wayne Swan

“I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.”

Knows Years Fighting Statistics Get Back

Author:Fernando Torres

“I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.”

Mind Reason Nice Consequence Enjoyed Statistics Racing

Author:Michael Schumacher

“The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.”

Giving Should Believe Has Beens Reason Pleasure Audience Teaching Statistics Instruction Lecturer

Author:Michael Faraday

“And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.”

Men Way Complexes Feminist Statistics Exaggerated

Author:Warren Farrell

“Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.”

Men Want Use Science Easy Access Medical Preserves Statistics Journal Troublesome Mining Revolver

Author:John Shaw Billings

“Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.”

Delight Scripture Satan Statistics Quoting

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

“Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.”

Humans War Past Lying Rights Cold Police Human Rights Statistics Regimes Cold War Fear Not Captives Omnipotent Fear Nothing

Author:Vaclav Havel

“The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?”

Years Firsts Has Beens Shows School Born Half Class Boys Player Team Fans Media Football Fairs Soccer Statistics Selected Football Player School Years

Author:Daniel Finkelstein

“The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.”

Firsts Facts Science Treated Statistics Units Requirements

Author:Claude Bernard

“There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.”

Looks Long House Politics White Levels Long Time Percent Vote Democratic Statistics White House Editors Bias Reporters Infrastructure

Author:Evan Thomas

“Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.”

May Body Faces Decision Wise Method Defined Uncertainty Statistics Wise Decision

Author:W. Allen Wallis

“Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.”

Century Intellectual Property Oil Data Statistics 21st Century Analytics Intellectual Property Data Science Data Collection

Author:Mark Getty

“You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.”

Men Real House Results Situation Forever He Man Masters Mercy Fellows Statistics Makers Organize Census

Author:Walter Lippmann

“Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.”

Stills Levels Subjects Higher Confused Statistics Lectures Higher Level I Am Confused

Author:Enrico Fermi

“I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.”

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