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, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. – Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct