#statistic

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#consumers #countries #fill #more #other

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#man #millions #statistic #tragedy

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. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#collect #cube #diagrams #government #keen

I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

#escape #films #horror #horror films #i

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. ↗

— Ian Hart

#complete #eventually #gave #internet #know

Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, you have not thereby immposd a limit on the nature of events so that in the future they could not vary. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#leibniz #regression #statistics #experience

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#always #appears #certainty #everyday #guise

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#essence #improbability #life #scale #statistical

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer] ↗

— Michael Lewis

#sports #statistics #art