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I don't think your interpreting the sentence correctly, I think it's more correct to read it as:

> We don't [only] need [the formal discipline of mathematics known as] statistics to learn about the world.

Sure, there are things you can only functionally ascertain through statistical analysis. But not everything in the world needs rigorous statistics.

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We don't need != We don't only need.

First one means "throw it away". Second one means "add other things too".

> I don't think your interpreting the sentence correctly

And I think you are injecting the words "only", "there are" and "everything" here and there just to change the meaning of the sentences I quoted and I have written...

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