This document contains a collection of quotes related to statistics and data. Some key quotes emphasize that while data and information are important, they must be used carefully and combined with human intelligence, judgement, and insight. Other quotes note that statistics can be flexible and misleading if not interpreted carefully, and that collecting quality data over long periods of time is important for analysis. The overall message is that statistics are a useful tool but have limitations, and human discernment is still needed.

1. Statistically
Significant Quotes
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2. “All models
are wrong but
some are
useful.”

3. “You can use all the quantitative
data you can get but you still
have to distrust it and use your
own intelligence and judgment.”

4. “Information is not synonymous with
knowledge. Information is only data, parts
of the whole.”
- Ruth Nanda Anshen
(Philosopher)

5. “The goal is to transform
data into information, and
information into insight.”
- Carly Fiorina
(Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard)

6. “To write it, it took three months; to
conceive it, three minutes; to collect the
data in it, all my life.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Author)

7. “In God we trust,
all others must
bring data.”

8. - Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
(Physician and writer)
“Data! Data! Data! I can’t make
bricks without clay!”

9. “If you do not know how to ask
the right question, you
discover nothing.”
W. Edwards Deming
(Statistician)

10. - Ronald Coase
(Economist)

11. “If the statistics are boring,
you’ve got the wrong numbers.”
- Edwar d Tuf t e
(Pr of essor emer i t us, Yal e Uni ver si t y)

12. “Facts are
stubborn but
statistics are
more pliable.”
- Mark Twain
(Author and humorist)

13. “Statistics are no substitute
for judgment.”
Henry Clay
(Politician and orator)

14. “Do not put your
faith in what
statistics say until
you have carefully
considered what
they do not say.”
-WilliamW.Watt, Author

15. “A little uncertainty
is good for
everyone.”
- Henry
Kissinger
(Former Secretary of State)

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