Challenges Quote by Pramila Jayapal

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

— Koren Zailckas

It's the media who love statistics.

— Virgil van Dijk

Statistics are there to be broken.

— Anonymous

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

— Evan Esar

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

— Ian Hacking

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

— Vince Lombardi

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 art of lying by means of figures.

— Wilhelm Stekel

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

— Ebbe Skovdahl

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods…

— Darrell Huff

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

— W. Allen Wallis