Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
~ William W. Watt

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Statistics may be defined as a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.
~ W.A. Wallis

After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damned lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of.
~ Leonard Courtney

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
~ Laplace

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