Quotes about Statistics

435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

More than five billion

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Seventy-five thousand people a day become Christians, two-thirds of whom live in Africa.

According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.

In 2008, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama told an audience, "Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools, and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.

Life is a game of statistics. There are no guarantees, but the more positive effort you put in, the more likely you will be to win.

I can buy baseball cards to view an entire career on the back of a little square of cardboard. But nobody sells major league father cards with key statistics on the back ("Had a great season in 2005: set career highs in unforced expressions of affection and averaged 87 minutes of quality time per day.")

Suddenly, I began to wonder: If one in three or four American women had an abortion at some time in her life--a common statistical estimate, even in those days of illegality-- then why, WHY should this single surgical procedure be deemed a criminal act?

Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.