Crime Quote by James A. Garfield

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

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

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

— Florence Nightingale

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

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

— Evan Esar

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

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

— Vince Lombardi

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

— Jean Baudrillard

Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have everything that…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.

— Hope Jahren