Statistician Quotes

#1. We would not even need a statistician; a second-rate engineer would do.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

John Tukey

#3. Any environmental biologist or statistician will tell you that humankind's best chance of long-term survival occurs with a global population of around four billion.

Dan Brown

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Celine snorted. "Never have I ever had a thing for blondes," she said. And then, her eyes on Sloane, she shot our statistician a dazzling smile and lowered her own finger - meaning that she did have a thing for blondes.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#8. Data scientist (noun): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. - Josh Wills

Rachel Schutt

#9. No scientist is as model minded as is the statistician; in no other branch of science is the word model as often and consciously used as in statistics.

Hans Freudenthal

#10. Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.

Bertrand Russell

#11. If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

Ernest Rutherford

#12. If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage.

Alexander Kotov

#13. Don't be a novelist
be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

Darrell Huff

#14. To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Ronald Fisher

#15. The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

W. Edwards Deming

#16. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Nate Silver

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

Tom Rath

#19. One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.

Paul Theroux

#20. This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

Thomas Pynchon

#21. The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

Ronald Fisher

#22. The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

Ronald Fisher

#23. If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.

Ernest Rutherford

#24. To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Ronald Fisher

#25. The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

George E.P. Box

#26. 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

#27. Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

George Brett

#28. I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.

Scarlett Johansson

#29. Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data ... to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.

Herman Chernoff

#30. Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

Lillian Hellman

#31. The median isn't the message.

Stephen Jay Gould

#32. Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

Bradley Efron

#33. The median is not the message,

Stephen Jay Gould