Analysis Quote by Evan Esar

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

— Evan Esar

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

— John Tukey

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

— Wilhelm Stekel

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

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking…

— Ronald Fisher

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.

— Theodor Billroth

I've never been a stat guy.

— Chris Hogan

Honestly, I've just been trying to improve all parts of my game, and a statistic is just a statistic.

— Lindsey Horan

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

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

— W. Allen Wallis

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

— Mark Twain

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

— George W. Buck