Don Marquis Quote

We like to wonder about them [statistics]; we look at them and thrill and speculate and doubt and conjecture. But it is no joy to us to know what statistics are about. We do not wish to have them tied down to any specific subject. We love to see them dart and frolic through the pages of great tomes just for the sake of the dance itself.

Prefaces, Preface to a Book of Statistics (p. 184)