Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.
Since when was genius found respectable?
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
Statistics in the hands of activists have power.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.
Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.
Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.