Accounts Quote by Adolphe Quetelet

Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every…

— Florence Nightingale

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on…

— Thomas Carlyle

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately…

— Francis Galton

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics.…

— George E. P. Box

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

— Evan Esar

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry,…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas…

— Lawrence Shepp

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and…

— James A. Garfield