Data Quote by Claude Bernard

FACTS = F. Frequently A. Associated C. Calculations T. Theorizing S. Standards

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail.”

— Charles Wheelan

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

— Stanley Smith Stevens

Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

— Peter Armitage

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

— Ian Hacking

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

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t…

— Charlie Munger

“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 is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people.

— Pramila Jayapal