Allowing Quote by Lawrence Shepp

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

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Statistics are there to be broken.

— Anonymous

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

You always have to be very, very careful with statistics. It doesn't mean that we negate them completely; we just don't use them to…

— Andre Villas-Boas

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

— Evan Esar

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

— Vince Lombardi

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

— Bradley Efron

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

As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because…

— Claude Bernard

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