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“The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.”

“I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.”

Inspirational Littles Past Time Change Born Education Knowing Math Statistics Not Knowing Social Change Here And There Little Time Change Management Certain Knowledge

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.”

Believe Use Used I Believe Figures Thousand Deny Statistics Slips Now And Then Bats

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.”

Book Ends Pain Death Records Statistics Conventions Keepers Binding Graveyard

Book:Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

“Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.”

Faces Common Psychology Theory Spring Extremes Common Sense Impulse Biology Statistics Heroism Illogical Scientific Theory

Author:Christopher McDougall

“Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.”

Sports Lines Baseball Boxes Score Statistics Shifting Highlights Streaks Midsummer Slumps Cascade

Author:Roger Angell

“Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.”

Want Should Years Firsts Humans Mean Done Body Today Left Human Beings Deals Mountain Rivers Seven Cells Statistics Valleys Seven Years Vary

Author:Guy Finley

“Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.”

People Faces Black Poverty Theory Adversity Institutions Data Statistics Manila Folders Black Face

Book:RFK: A Memoir

Source: RFK: A Memoir

“Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.”

“Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."”

Kind Funny Lying Three Force Justice Cases Figures Humorous Investing Statistics Remarks Arranging Disraeli

Author:Mark Twain

“Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.”

Knows Reality Funny Feet Humorous Average Height Statistics

Author:Robert Reich

“If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth”

Ifs Inspirational Long Enough Torture Statistics

Author:Alan K. Simpson

“In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.”

Science Found Causes Teach Taught Succeed Patient Determine Statistics Phenomenon

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.”

Inspirational Humility Fool Succeed Stupidity Idiot Enterprise Statistics Humiliating

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.”

Thinking Knows Player Worst Statistics

Author:Victoria Azarenka

“[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.”

Form Science Fiction Technology Statistics

Author:Evan Esar

“[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.”

Science Technology Prove Statistics Usefulness

Author:Evan Esar

“All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.”

Ifs Science Term Statements Statistics

Book:The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.”

Shows Science Disaster Statistics

Book:The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually happen would be that I should make out Pt (normal) and say to myself that would be about 50:1; pretty good but as it may not be normal we'd best not be too certain, or 100:1; even allowing that it may not be normal it seems good enough and whether one would be content with that or would require further work would depend on the importance of the conclusion and the difficulty of obtaining suitable experience.”

“I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.”

Men Science Prove Statistics Loaded

Book:Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions

Source: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions

“Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic”

Men Science Millions Murder Killing Statistics One Man

Book:Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy

“Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.”

Years Shows Science Chosen Statistics Trends Variables

Book:The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.”

Important Science Wise Ought Bases Statistics Steam

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.”

Should May Two Country Science Nations Results Objects Elements Instruments Accomplish Chiefs Data Statistics Accurate Folds Exhibits Census

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1

“The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.”

Ifs Mean Enough Law Science Return Statistics Beneficial Diminishing Returns

Book:The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.”

Different Science Levels Produce Opposites Conclusion Statistics Different Levels

Book:The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.”

Thinking Men Science Principles Clear Duty Excuse Obligation Statistics Inference Statistician Thinking Man

Author:Ronald Fisher

“To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.”

Remember Science Forget Figures Statistics Accurate

Book:Empiricism and sociology

Source: Empiricism and sociology

“You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.”

World Doe Real Science Statistics Real World Fractions Variables Upstairs

Author:Thomas Sowell

“All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.”

Mind Science Models Statistics Approximation

Book:Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses

Source: Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses

“My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.”

Mother Games Theory Economics Logic Math Statistics Professors Symbolic

Author:Dave Hickey

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