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  • If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

  • it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

  • According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle.

  • In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

    Lying   Fall   Statistics  
  • A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking about the other.

    Sex   Math   Thinking  
  • Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

    Art   Lying   Mean  
    Marriage at the Crossroads Chapter II (p. 20)
  • No one-liner can ever be optimal.

  • Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

  • For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

    Rene Descartes (2013). “Discourse on the Method: Discourse On the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth In the Sciences (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc
  • I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

    Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub
  • In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

  • Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

    Home   Odds   Insanity  
  • It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

    Man's Place in Nature II (p. 126)
  • Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

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

    Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books
  • Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

  • The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

    Some Economic Factors in Modern Life ch. 8 (1929)
  • The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.

  • After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

  • In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

    Strong   Reading   Math  
  • A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

    Book   Looks   Answers  
  • Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

    Sports   Baseball   Ice  
  • Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

    Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

    "The 100 best nonfiction books: No24 - The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith (1958)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2016.
  • Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

    "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.
  • I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

  • He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

  • Statistics is the grammar of science.

  • Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

    Life   Math   Statistics  
    Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1933). “The nature of the physical world”
  • And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

    Failure   Math   May  
    Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.125
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