Body Quote by W. Allen Wallis

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 may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

— Peter Armitage

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

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

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

— Jean Baudrillard

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

— Ebbe Skovdahl

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

— Stanley Smith Stevens

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

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

— Ian Hacking

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

— Evan Esar

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

— Evan Esar