sampling methods Quotes

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] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

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

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.