You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within it, but it can’t find them. It therefore deduces that they are well-concealed...

All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

This year’s statistics show a more active than average hurricane season.

The only things that really keep me going are statistics.

Obviously statistics will be kept and you want to get closer to perfect. But when it comes down to it, a quarterback is graded upon winning, and that’s the area I’m looking to improve the...

Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the...

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

I don’t believe in statistics.

J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, “Littlewood’s Miscellany.” He said the average person is alert for about eight hours every day,...

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

I’m not interested in Donnie Edwards’ seven-year tackling statistics. I’m only interested in the type of player he is (currently) and the player he may be in the future.

I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those...

Statistics tell us that when you have 10 medical incidents ? then you’re going to have a lost-time accident. We’re up to 13 or 14 medical incidents, so we’re overdue for a lost-time accident, according...

Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically by the intelligentsia pass rapidly into the public domain with little scrutiny and much publicity. Two of the biggest proven hoaxes of our...