Concerned Quote by Peter Armitage

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

— W. Allen Wallis

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

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

— 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

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

— Ian Hacking

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

“Statistics became what it still is today: a form of political rhetoric. The categories that statisticians had to develop were reified in the hands…

— Jürgen Osterhammel

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 first of the inexact sciences.

— Edmond de Goncourt

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

Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to…

— Herman Chernoff