Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

  • -- Evan Esar 埃文·伊萨尔

统计学的定义:从可靠的数字中得出不可靠的事实的科学。

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I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.

我认为他们需要一种更可靠的方式在笔记本电脑上看电视。因为我经常旅行,如果我想看我最喜欢的球队的比赛,它可能不会在那个地方播放,所以我想要一种可靠的方式来观看我想在笔记本上看的任何比赛。

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

建立在人类基础上的希望、人为的哲学或任何制度总是放错地方……因为这些事情不可靠,转瞬即逝。

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

注重事实的人可以纠正错误,但墨守成规的人不会纠正教条主义。

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

我们在斗争中可能失败的可能性不应阻止我们支持我们认为是正义的事业。

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样,我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

议长先生,我今天站起来支持一男一女婚姻的定义。

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

我不喜欢生产。你坐着开了很多会,结果却一无所获。

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

神……他的唯一定义就是他超出了人类的想象能力。

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

我的感觉和我在学校的时候一样。我也有同样的不安全感。

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

所使用的度量类型对统计数据的使用施加了限制。

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

那时,我在数字的世界里如鱼得水,而不是在价值的世界里。

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

在我的成长过程中,我学习古典文学,在学校里做了很多表演。

Don't confuse facts with reality.

不要把事实和现实混淆起来。