“Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”
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“Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.”
Actually said by Andrew Lang, in a 1910 speech: "Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination", as quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977), and reported in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 488.
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1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles

As quoted in Art of Communicating Ideas (1952) by William Joseph Grace, p. 389
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Source: Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), Who Stands Fast?, p. 5.
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