Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance

A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him

The feeling itself, it is the same. I don't really add the statistics that I had in Japan and the home runs here.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed, Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.