Irving R. Levine quotes

Irving R. Levine quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
-- Irving R. Levine

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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
“Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.”
“There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.”
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”
“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”
“Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.”
“Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.”
“The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so”
“Training was one thing, reality another.”

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