105 Statist Quotes

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Famous Statist Quotes

Statistics are for losers. — Scotty Bowman

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. — Vin Scully

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis

Statistics is the grammar of science. - Karl Pearson

Statistics is the grammar of science. — Karl Pearson

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. — Mark Twain

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. — George E. P. Box

Statistics are no substitute for judgment. — Henry Clay

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. — Marilyn vos Savant

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. — John Tukey

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write! — H. G. Wells

Short Statist Quotes

  • I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application. — Heinrich Hertz
  • Without analysis, no synthesis. — Friedrich Engels
  • Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. — Richard P. Feynman
  • All models are wrong, but some are useful. — George E. P. Box
  • The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard
  • If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford
  • Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written. — Vijay Kedia
  • Marketing isn’t about shortcuts; it’s about the slow, steady, and consistent effort. — Rand Fishkin
  • Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that. — Didier Deschamps
  • If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong. — John Harvey-Jones

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It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. — Robert Hooke

The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us. — Bryan Stevenson

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. — Rita Mae Brown

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance. — Frank Zappa

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. — George A. Romero

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. — Mike Schmidt

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. — Kim Campbell

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. — John Tukey

GDP statistics evolved during the Industrial Age and do not seem to be keeping up with the digital age. Thanks to productivity, real GDP growth probably is higher and inflation lower than reported, suggesting that the quality of earnings has increased significantly. — Cathie Wood

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency. — Anatoly Karpov

Inspirational Statistics Quotes

The only difference between a salesperson and a marketer is the first person is annoying, and the second one is amazing. — Russell Brunson

Someone twice as talented but half as hardworking as another person might reach the same level of skill but still produce dramatically less over time. — Angela Duckworth

On-page SEO is no longer satisfied by raw keyword use. Matching keywords to searcher INTENT is critical. — Brian Dean

The third most important part of your blog post is the closing. A great way to close is to tie back into your opening. — Brian Clark

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. — Peter De Vries

I admire pickles because there is no one moment that makes a pickle a pickle. It is a thing that happens over time. Pickles are patient. — Alexi Pappas

I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space. — Peggy Whitson

The most important thing is to be a midfielder first, not scoring goals. You have to make the game, make an assist for the team, and if you can score, it’s a plus for the team. — Paul Pogba

Tim Duncan did it. Dirk Nowitzki did it. I just want to be one of those guys… that stays for the city, play for the city for 20 years. — Giannis Antetokounmpo

The players are writing a beautiful page of the club’s history and also of French football history. — Didier Deschamps

Statistical Quotes

Using statistical models to predict life expectancy isn't a definitive forecast. It's a statistical proxy based on risk factors and population data, providing insights but not individual certainties. — Gary Brecka

Simple probability and statistics should be taught in grades kindergarten through twelve and that analyzing games of chance such as coin matching, dice, and roulette is one way we can learn enough to think through such issues. — Edward O. Thorp

Contrary to popular belief, we are not doomed. This is statistically the best time to be alive, ever. — Peter Diamandis

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. — Robert A. Heinlein

The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance. — William Eckhardt

I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are. — Harry Kane

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. — Holger Czukay

To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life. — R.J. Rushdoony

There are 1000 mobile network operators competing for half the world, but there’s none competing for the other half. — Micky Watkins

It’s similar to what sailors feel when they are out at sea – if they meet another ship, they probably feel some kind of brotherhood; it doesn’t matter which flag is on the ship. — Sergei Krikalev

Statistic Quotes

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Howard Whitley Eves

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. — Leonhard Euler

There is a huge gap between international and domestic cricket. That gap needs to be lessened. Our domestic circuit needs to step up. — Smriti Mandhana

Remember that the Lord Jesus came to take away sin in three ways; He came to remove the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and, at last, the presence of sin. — Charles Spurgeon

If I had to boil it down to the one thing that makes the most difference it would be having a systematic way of getting sales. — Ryan Deiss

If you keep trying to hit a four but you keep on getting only one run. Then chances are when you will hit a six you will get caught. — Vijay Kedia

Humans are actually far more likely to get taken out by an impact event or a supervolcano than we are to get killed in a crash of a commercial airliner. — John Young

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — Eric Temple Bell

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It’s not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff. — Mikel Arteta

You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit. — Jon Gruden

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More Statist Quotes

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up. — Seymour Papert

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. — Arthur Conan Doyle

You might think that as people get older, they spend money more freely out of the sheer desire to make the most of it before it’s truly too late. But the opposite tends to happen. In general, spending among American households declines as people age. For example, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, found that in 2017, average annual spending for households headed by 55-to-64-year-olds was $65,000. Average spending fell to $55,000 for those between 65 and 74; and spending fell again to $42,000 for those 75 and older. This overall decline occurred despite a rise in healthcare expenses, because most other expenses, such as clothing and entertainment, were much lower. The decline in spending over time was even more acute for retirees with more than $1 million in assets, according to separate research conducted by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, which analyzed data from more than half a million of its customers. — Bill Perkins

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