Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but…

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.

— Evan Esar

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

— Tom Rath

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the…

— Edwin Conklin

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

— George E. P. Box

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is…

— Michael Lewis

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

— Bradley Efron

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to…

— Claude Shannon

Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under…

— Ronald Fisher

I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes…

— Lloyd deMause

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

— E. M. Forster

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

— Ronald Fisher

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

— W. Edwards Deming

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

— Sylvia Porter