#statistics

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

"If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment."

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

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns- the ones we don't know we don't know."

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"

"All statistics have outliers."

"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."