Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
Organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of the cautious, statistical christ.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination.
If you look at the statistics today, e.coli dropped like a stone in the early 2000s and it has continued as a downward trend.
It's in the modeling that they get these higher numbers of 10 to 15 percent, these statistics still aren't very good.
You just look at the statistics now and they really do match up with 1992.
Frankly, that statistic has been horrifyingly low and hasn't moved.
Statistician a man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Statistics the only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
These are sobering statistics and disheartening statistics.
The important and telling statistic is the conviction rate.
The thing that's nice about baseball is that there are so many statistics kept on each player.
That is one of the single most disturbing statistics I think i've heard.
It's true that this particular problem, as with any statistical problem, makes the fed's job more complicated.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
These statistics clearly debunk the theory that making marijuana legal for adults will result in more teen use.
Amazing statistics this week, I didn't expect that from the beginning of the season. I didn't really start well in australia.
Statistics show that more than 60% of US households have a pet dog, which proves just how popular they really are.
Obviously it's a statistics game.
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Statistics the mathematical theory of ignorance.
We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.
