Quote by Mort Sahl

“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

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

— Edmond de Goncourt

“ Ronald Fisher was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.”

— Anders Hald

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

— Evan Esar

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

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

— Ian Hacking

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

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

— Ben Horowitz

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

— Edward Witten

“I only belive in statistics I doctored myself”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Ebbe Skovdahl

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

— Evan Esar