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I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
Alfred E. Perlman
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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
Will Rogers
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Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.
Will Self
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Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
Jack Paar
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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
William Blake
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The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say confidently that the summit of Rum Doodle is 40,000 1/2 feet above sea level.
William Ernest Bowman
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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
William Ernest Henley
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Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
William Godwin
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There are statistics out that say 20 year olds, 18 years olds think about sex 90 percent of the time. They only don't think about sex when they're eating, and that's rare.
William H. Macy
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Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
Aldous Huxley
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
Aldous Huxley
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
John Ralston Saul
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In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.
Alberto Manguel
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
Albert Einstein
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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Albert Einstein
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
George Bernard Shaw
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By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.
Albert Einstein
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What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
Albert Einstein
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Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.
Albert Einstein
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If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.
Albert Einstein
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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
Albert Einstein
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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
Albert Einstein
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I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
Albert Einstein
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