Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old statistics quotes, statistics sayings, and statistics proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
All statistics have outliers.Nenia Campbell
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Statistics is the grammar of science.Karl Pearson
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Statistics real contribution to society is primarily moral, not technical.Max Morris
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Statistics in the hands of activists have power.Ela Bhatt
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.Mark Twain
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Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.William W. Watt
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Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.George Box
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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.H.G. Wells
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Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support than illumination.Mark Twain
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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.Aaron Levenstein
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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.Paul Brodeur
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In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.Gunter Grass
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Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.Richelle E. Goodrich
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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.Rex Stout
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.Vin Scully
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.Hilaire Belloc
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.Alphonse Allais
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Statistics are no substitute for judgment.Henry Clay
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.Evan Esar
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.Carl Sagan
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
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Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.Theodor Billroth
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The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.Erwin Schrodinger
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Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.Brad Efron
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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.John Tukey
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.Jean Baudrillard
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Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.Anonymous
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Statistics are just a way for the mathematician to evangelize his faith.Hunter Brinkmeier
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.Ernest Rutherford