Statistics Quotes

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[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form. — Evan Esar
[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics. — Evan Esar
All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms. — Thomas Sowell
Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster. — Thomas Sowell
I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance.… — William Sealy Gosset
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can. — Mark Twain
Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic — Robert Kennedy
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen. — Thomas Sowell
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by… — Thomas Carlyle
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and… — James A. Garfield
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough. — Thomas Sowell
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. — Thomas Sowell
The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man… — Ronald Fisher
To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures. — Otto Neurath
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them,… — Thomas Sowell
...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in… — George E. P. Box
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a… — Henry Adams
Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying… — Richard Doll
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as… — Lewis Carroll

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