Quotes on statistics

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information. (Heinz R. Pagels)

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. (Rex Todhunter Stout)

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination. (Andrew Lang)

Statistics, like veal pies, are good if you know the person that made them, and are sure of the ingredients. (Harvard President Lawrence Lowell)