Whether statistics be an art or a science...or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.


Letters on the Theory of Probabilities (1846), trans. O. G. Downes (1849)


Whether statistics be an art or a science...or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and...

Whether statistics be an art or a science...or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and...

Whether statistics be an art or a science...or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and...

Whether statistics be an art or a science...or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and...