Business Quote by Evan Esar

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

— W. Allen Wallis

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

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.

— Maurice Kendall

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

— Peter Armitage

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

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

— Ian Hacking

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.

— Evan Esar

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] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political…

— Adolphe Quetelet

A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with…

— Morris H. DeGroot

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

— Wilhelm Stekel