Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among th….

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases..

"I see it, but I don't believe it.".

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything..

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned..

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you..

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam..

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities..

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it..

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company..

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist..

Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X..

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself..

You know my methods. Apply them..

Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer..

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics..

The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits..

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too..

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic.

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the su….

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed..