Statistics Quotes

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Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything.  Gregg Easterbrook (Quote Garden)

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.Mark Twain (Brainy Quote)

You can’t fix by analysis what you bungled by design. Light, Singer and Willett, page v (Math WPI)

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them. Lewis Carroll (World of Quotes)

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. Fletcher Knebel (Quotations Page)

Round numbers are always false. Samuel Johnson (Best Quotes)

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. Ernest Rutherford (Basic Jokes)

Statistics are no substitute for judgment. Henry Clay (Online Math Learning)

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write. HG Wells (Posner Smith)

I could prove God statistically. ~ George Gallup (Working Humor)

There are three kinds of lies: lies,damned liesandstatistics. Benjamin Disraeli (Quotes Your Dictionary)

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein. (ThinkExist)

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. Evan Esar. (Bored.com)

USA Today has come out with a new survey – apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. David Letterman. (Entrainbow)

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