I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
Alan Shepard

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
Christopher Hitchens

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
Robert Sternberg

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
Tom Seaver

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.
Chili Davis

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel

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

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.
Hjalmar Schacht

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

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Jean Baudrillard

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.
David Korten

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.
Michael Zaslow

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
Liza Minnelli

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay

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

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