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The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process. — George E.P. Box

The median isn't the message. — Stephen Jay Gould

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success. — Barbra Streisand

Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. — Robert Hooke

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. — Evan Esar

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

We would not even need a statistician; a second-rate engineer would do. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician. — Nate Silver

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway? — Thomas Pynchon

Don't be a novelist
be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination. — Darrell Huff

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends. — Ronald Fisher

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation — Lillian Hellman

We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet. — Neil Postman

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford

The way we look at it, everything is a sound. — Lester Bowie

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster

The median is not the message, — Stephen Jay Gould

One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone. — Paul Theroux

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it. — Bradley Efron

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time. — Bil Keane

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford

Using your intuition is such a wonderful way to live. It's very exciting. — Echo Bodine

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician. — Tom Rath

Expectations have no effect on the harvest. — Marty Rubin