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Evan Esar
(1899 - 1995)
American humorist and writer.
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Science Quotes by Evan Esar (3 quotes)
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
— Evan Esar
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Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie but admits that, under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
— Evan Esar
The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). In Robert Harris Shutler, Mathematics 436 - Finely Explained (2004), 3.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
— Evan Esar
The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). In Robert Harris Shutler, Mathematics 436 - Finely Explained (2004), 3.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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