Data Quote by Charles Wheelan

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

— Erwin Schrodinger

“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”

— Aaron Levenstein

“Statistics are rarely meaningful in and of themselves. Statistics will, and should, almost always be used to illustrate a relationship. It’s more important for…

— Chip Heath

“Statistics are no substitue for judgement.”

— Henry Clay

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods…

— Darrell Huff

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

— Aaron Levenstein

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

— Evan Esar

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

— W. Allen Wallis

“that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts.”

— Scott Adams

“To condescend effectively it is clearly necessary to adhere to a narrow definition of relevant data.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

“The more you summarize, the more order you put in, the less randomness. Hence the same condition that makes us simplify pushes us to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb