Manmohan Singh Quotes

Statistics are like blood sausage: they are delicious until you find out how they're made.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

Statistics is the plural of anecdote.

But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

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

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

It is the mark of a greatly educated person to be deeply moved by statistics.