He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than for illumination. – Andrew Lang Category: Statistics
A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. – M.J. Moroney Category: Statistics
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. – Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités, 1820 Category: Statistics
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. – Theodor Billroth Category: Statistics
I dont know now if Im funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something thats funny. – Craig Ferguson Category: funny
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot Category: Vanity
