Data Quote by Hilaire Belloc

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 "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

— W. Allen Wallis

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

— Evan Esar

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

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

— Peter Armitage

Method is the arithmetic of success.

— Josh Billings

“Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in…

— Paul Kalanithi

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

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

— Ian Hacking

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 is the first of the inexact sciences.

— Edmond de Goncourt

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