Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Statistics is the grammar of science.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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