Quotes and Sayings About Statistics
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What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.
-- A. W. F. EdwardsSource : A. W. F. Edwards (1984). “Likelihood”, p.180, CUP Archive
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You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.
-- Abel Aganbegyan -
According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.
-- Alafair Burke -
Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date.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.
-- Alan Bennett -
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth
-- Alan K. Simpson -
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
-- Alan Kay -
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .
-- Albrecht Durer -
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
-- Aleister Crowley -
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais -
no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.
-- Antoinette BoscoSource : Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”
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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
-- Aristotle -
You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.
-- Armand Trousseau -
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
-- Art Buchwald -
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Training was one thing, reality another.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
You see, but you do not observe.
-- Arthur Conan DoyleSource : "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)
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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
-- Arthur EddingtonSource : "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Alan L. Mackay, (p. 79), 1991.
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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.
-- Arthur Eddington -
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
-- Arthur Eddington -
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Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
-- August Wilhelm von Hofmann -
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.
-- Ava DuVernay -
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
-- Ben Horowitz -
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
-- Bernie Siegel -
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
-- Bert LanceSource : Quoted in Wash. Post, 23 Dec. 1976.