Quotes

Some of my favourite quotes about stats:

The quiet statisticians have changed our world; not by discovering new facts or technical developments, but by changing the ways that we reason, experiment and form our opinions. ~Ian Hacking

All models are wrong, but some are useful. ~George Box

“The best way to improve a theory is to study anomalies” ~Clayton Christensen, HBS Professor

If experiment is the queen of sciences, then statistics is the Guardian of royal virtue. ~Nyron Tribus

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

Even while living in a world of uncertainty, we make assumptions and, from there, try to do things that are optimal (or nearly so) within our assumptions. ~Andrew Gelman