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There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.