Statistics may be defined as “a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.” – W.A. Wallis Category: Statistics
Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts… for support rather than illumination. – Source Unknown Category: Statistics
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. – Theodor Billroth Category: Statistics
A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. – M.J. Moroney Category: Statistics
Never think that Gods delays are Gods denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius. – Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon Category: Patience
Nor must you find fault with me if I often give you what I have borrowed from my various reading, in the very words of the authors themselves. – Macrobius, translated from Latin Category: Quotations