Conclusion Quote by Evan Esar

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

— Evan Esar

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately…

— Francis Galton

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

— W. Allen Wallis

Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

— Alan Stern

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

— Rex Stout

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

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

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

— Colin Powell

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

— Dr Laurence J Peter

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

— Dean Smith

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson