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Figures Quotes by Evan Esar
- [A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
- Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
- 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.
- Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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