Dale Steyn Quotes

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

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

I always liked numbers.

I've never been a stat guy.

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

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

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

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

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

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

Statistics is the plural of anecdote.

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

You'll never hear me talk about stats.

Obviously it's a statistics game.

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

I'm an analytics girl.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

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

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.