"Statistician" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the entire republic is probably a little less than eight hundred thousand square miles. Trustworthy statistics relating to Mexico are not attainable. Even official reports are scarcely better than estimates. Carlos Butterfield, accredited statistician, makes the area of the republic about thirty-three thousand square miles less than the figures we have given. He also calculates that the density of the population is some ten or eleven to the square mile. Other authorities, however, give the area much nearer ...
— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou
... His expression and tone were passionless as those of a statistician proffering a tabulation: his words were fit to wring ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... an eminent statistician, Professor Bowley. He advised them that not less than 408 men and 408 women would prove to be a fair sample. According to mathematical calculation this number would not show a greater deviation from the average ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann
... that he had "no sentimental tenderness for the Germans"—were marked with the brand of KEYNES, and his assertion that the utmost Germany could pay was two thousand millions came bodily from that eminent statistician. To the same inspiration was possibly due the unhappy suggestion that our chief Ally was pursuing a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, February 18th, 1920 • Various
... be credited, however, to labor activity alone. The new social atmosphere has provided a congenial milieu for this vast extension of state functions. The philanthropist, the statistician, and the sociologist have become potent allies of the labor legislator; and such non-labor organizations, as the American Association for Labor Legislation, have added their momentum to the movement. New ideals of social cooperation have been established, and ...
— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth
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