309 Quotes About Statistics

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

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

To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.