#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

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#illumination #lamp #man #posts #rather

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#broadcasts #everyone #intelligent #reflected #statistics

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#calculations #complex #experience #interesting #just

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning. ↗

— Mark Messier

#as far as #brought #concept #everything #far

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#leading #smoking #statistics

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

— Harry Reasoner

#apple pie #baseball #crust #mom #pie

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#feed #hungry #statistics #you

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