Statistician Quotes
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The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.
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Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.
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Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.
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The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
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I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.
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I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
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Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.
