Some statistics/science quotes appropriate in finance
With four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. J. Neumann

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.        Rex Stout

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.                                       Socrates

Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers.            Bruce Calvert

In God we trust. All others must bring data.                                              Robert Hayden

Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay!                                       S. Holmes

It is easy to lie with statistics, but it is easier to lie without them.                  C. Mosteller

When the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem begins to look like a nail.   A. Maslow

All information looks like noise until you break the code.                                N. Stephenson

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.     R. Bacon

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.                      M. Bates

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.         G. Chesterton

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.                                                Oscar Wilde

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.         T. Jefferson



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Collected aphorisms from a smart counter (and co-religionist !)

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