Ignorance Quote by Thomas Carlyle

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

— Thomas Carlyle

A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.

— Thomas Carlyle

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: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

— Morris Kline

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— Adolphe Quetelet

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 no substitue for judgement.”

— Henry Clay

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”

— Mark Twain

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— Jeff Wheeler

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

— Steven Pinker

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

— Anonymous

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— Daniel Kahneman