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“Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?” — Oliver Heaviside

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“Advertising is legalized lying.” — H. G. Wells

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“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” — H. G. Wells

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“All generalizations are false, including this one.” — Mark Twain

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“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.” — John Tukey

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“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E. P. Box

Source:Box & Draper (1987), Empirical model-building and respons...

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“Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.” — George E. P. Box

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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” — Oscar Wilde

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“When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.” — Oscar Wilde

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