I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

Statistics is the grammar of science.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

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

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

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.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

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.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

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

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

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.

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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.