Quotable Mathematics

"No doubt statistics can be easily misinterpreted; and are often very misleading when first applied to new problems. But many of the wo...

"A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures." (Thomas Carlyle, Chartism, 1840) “Some of the common ways of prod...

“Always expect to find at least one error when you proofread your own statistics. If you don’t, you are probably making the same mistake twi...