#statistics

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. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#common #couples #fertility #i #just

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

— Gunther Grass

#future #growth #overpopulation #percentages #place

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#commission #european #exactly #few #fun

We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#detailed #discovery #down #larger #light

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

We are just statistics, born to consume resources. ↗

— Horace

#consume #just #resources #statistics

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#method #quantitative #statistics #sterility #triumph

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#abuse #democracy #statistics

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

#every #form #four #friends #illness

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. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#automobile #buffalo #dangerous #everyone #him