“The law of gravitation is not a law of the single event; it is a law of averages.”— Arthur Eddington
“If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.”— Arthur Eddington
“Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.”— Ronald Aylmer Fisher
“When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average. So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball? That is what determines whether you’re a good player or not.”— Johan Cruijff
“Correlation is not causation. This is one of the first things you learn in a statistics course.”— Steven Pinker
“Probability is a Janus-faced concept. On the one side it is statistical... On the other side it is epistemological, dedicated to assessing reasonable degrees of belief.”— Ian Hacking
“Life cannot have had a random beginning... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10^40,000.”— Fred Hoyle
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than for illumination.”— Andrew Lang
“The type of scale is defined by the group of transformations that leaves the scale form invariant.”— Stanley Smith Stevens
“The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.”— Ronald Aylmer Fisher
“Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.”— Evan Esar
“We have, in this country, two million children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread.”— Florence Kelley