Data Quote by Stephen Senn

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

— 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

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

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

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

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

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a…

— Robert Hooke

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

— Edmond de Goncourt

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

— Evan Esar

“I only belive in statistics I doctored myself”

— Winston Churchill

“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of…

— Jennifer Ouellette

“If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.”

— Edward Tufte