Data Quote by Morris H. DeGroot

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

— Evan Esar

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

— Peter Armitage

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics.…

— George E. P. Box

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

“If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising precisely because…

— Jennifer K. McArthur

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

— Stanley Smith Stevens

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

— Evan Esar

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

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