Adversity Quote by Francis Galton

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

— Evan Esar

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

— Ebbe Skovdahl

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

— Evan Esar

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics are there to be broken.

— Anonymous

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

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 has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and…

— James A. Garfield

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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