Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination. — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding. — Hal Varian Copy Share Image
If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
“Data scientist (noun): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. —… — Rachel Schutt Copy Share Image
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around… — George Brett Copy Share Image
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician. — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated… — Spencer Antle Copy Share Image
Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not… — Timothy Shriver Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“statistician William Sanders in Tennessee, who began his career advising agricultural and manufacturing industries. Sanders claimed that his statistical modeling could determine… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I… — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
“I keep notations, like my mother. She had notebook after notebook of trials and errors, all written in her perfect penmanship on… — Christa Parrish Copy Share Image
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since… — Udny Yule Copy Share Image
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. — John Tukey Copy Share Image
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
