Statistics

🇬🇧Karl Pearson

Mathematics

1857–1936

"For the present the Grammar may yet be of service. After an eight years' life and... 4000 copies, it reappears in a revised and enlarged form."

William Stanley Jevons

Economics

1835–1882

"In this work I have attempted to treat economy as a calculus of pleasure and pain, and have sketched out,almost irrespective of previous opinions, the form which the science,as it seems to me, must ultimately take."

🇺🇸Leonard Jimmie Savage

Mathematics

1917–1971

"For a person who wants to do original, realistic, and critical work in statistics there is no atmosphere anywhere in the world today to compare with this Department."

🇬🇧I. J. Good

Mathematics

1916–2009

"There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally."

"The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you."

🇮🇹Corrado Gini

Politics

1884–1965

"The most notable difference lies in the psychology of work. In the Orient one works to live; in Europe one works to consume; in America one works to work. These are the three stages of a progressive evolution."

🇮🇹Lucio Russo

Mathematics

1944–2025

"The oft-heard comment that Leonardo 's genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past."

Max Euwe

Mathematics

1901–1981

"Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation."

🇺🇸Walter A. Shewhart

Technology

1891–1967

"Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful."

🇸🇪Hans Rosling

Education

1948–2017

"“There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear."

"Sometimes the obvious is only wishful thinking."

🇺🇸George Gallup

Technology

1901–1984

"I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone — the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity."

"The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need."

🇮🇳Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Science

1893–1972

"No technique of random sample has, so far as I can find, been developed in the United States or elsewhere, which can compare in accuracy or in economy with that described by Professor Mahalanobis."