309 Quotes About Statistics

Work, finish, publish.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.