Trump claimed he had lowered prescription drug costs as much as 1500%. ‘I don’t mean 50%,’ he clarified. ‘I mean 1500%.
— Donald Trump
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
Statistics is the grammar of science.
— Karl Pearson
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.
— John Allen Paulos
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
— Thomas Carlyle
Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
— Mark Twain
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.
