I’ve taught statistics, math courses and what I’ve found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you’ll have one group of kids doing well. – Robert Sternberg
I like – I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that. – Pardis Sabeti
We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal. – Phil Harris
It’s great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity. – Russell Smith
If you’re the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I’m the long shot – the Lotto Powerball winner. I’m the mutation in the DNA that makes evolution a reality. I am the new black. – Tracy Morgan
Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I’d be safer selling my guns than reserving them for ‘Tombstone II.’ – Walter Kirn
In many college classes, laptops depict split screens – notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook. – Samantha Power
I don’t get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game. – Shelley Long
If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it’s one of my favorite places to renovate. – Vanilla Ice
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we’ve been in an anthropocentric era. – Story Musgrave
When I’m sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we’re all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, ‘Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin’-somethin’.’ I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on ‘SportsCenter.’ Just add statistics. – Stuart Scott
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. – Steven Pinker
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it’s also one on temporality too. Statistics – even when accurate – are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future. – Will Self
The statistics show that when you’ve done something for so long, it’ll either be, yeah, you’re slowing down, or someone’s doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it’s mental and spiritual. – Steven Lopez
I really started to forget things. That’s why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn’t remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn’t sure, and I didn’t want to make a mistake. – Terry Bradshaw
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. – Tom Seaver
The Democrats’ response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics. – Simon Sinek
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified. – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians’ warning that correlation is not causation. – Thomas Sowell
