#statistics

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#almighty #god #likelihood #might #omnipotence

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. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#among #cannot #children #common #district

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning. ↗

— Chili Davis

#baseball #come #enjoyment #everything #get

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. ↗

— Dizzy Dean

#batting #got #hate #head #i

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

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

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