Force Quote by James A. Garfield

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 most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every…

— Florence Nightingale

“Much of the apparent uniformity of Nature is a uniformity of averages. Our gross senses only take cognizance of the average effect of vast…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern…

— C.S. Lewis

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

Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people.

— Pramila Jayapal

“The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere…

— Stephen Senn

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be…

— W. H. Auden

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry,…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Evan Esar