Bases Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every…

— Florence Nightingale

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

— Evan Esar

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

— W. Allen Wallis

[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

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 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 the first of the inexact sciences.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

— Jean Baudrillard

“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