Statistics is
the grammar of science.
Karl Pearson
It is a capital mistake
to theorize
before one has data.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
most noted for his stories about Sherlock Holmes)
Statistical thinking
will one day be
as necessary a qualification
for efficient citizenship
as the ability
to read and write.
Herbert George “H. G.” Wells
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.
A.L. Bowley
If your experiment
needs statistics,
you ought to have
done a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford,
1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
became known as the father of nuclear physics)
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts
cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein
Prediction is very difficult,
especially of the future.
Niels Henrik David Bohr
There are two kinds of statistics,
the kind you look up
and the kind you make up.
Rex Todhunter Stout
