Descriptive Statistics Quotes

Statistics is the plural of anecdote.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

I have never been a stats person.

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

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

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

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

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Statistics are like blood sausage: they are delicious until you find out how they're made.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.

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

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

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.