I have a mass of statistics here, but I am afraid of them because I was never able to do much with that rugged study, mathematics. I can only figure on the multiplication table up to seven times nine, which is - 84.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I have a mass of statistics here, but I am afraid of them because I was never able to do much with that rugged study, mathematics. I can only figure on the multiplication table up to seven times nine, which is - 84.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Evidence, which we have means to strengthen for or against a proposition, is our proper means for attaining truth.
Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910)
I think the essential thing if you want to be a good statistician, as opposed to being a mathematician, is to talk to people and find out what they're doing and why they're doing it.
F.N. David (1909 - 1993)
Statistics are the food of love.
Roger Angell (1920 - )
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
... statistical techniques are tools of thought, and not substitutes for thought.
Abraham Kaplan (1918 - 1993)
"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
Sherlock Holmes/Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
Samuel S. Wilks (1906 - 1964)
paraphrasing Herbert G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
A knowledge of statistics is like a knowledge of foreign languages or of algebra; it may prove of use at any time under any circumstances.
Sir Arthur L. Bowley (1869 - 1957)
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination.
Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)