William Playfair Quote

No study is less alluring or more dry and tedious than statistics, unless the mind and imagination are set to work, or that the person studying is particularly interested in the subject; which last can seldom be the case with young men in any rank of life.


The Statistical Brewery (1801)


No study is less alluring or more dry and tedious than statistics, unless the mind and imagination are set to work, or that the person studying is...

No study is less alluring or more dry and tedious than statistics, unless the mind and imagination are set to work, or that the person studying is...

No study is less alluring or more dry and tedious than statistics, unless the mind and imagination are set to work, or that the person studying is...

No study is less alluring or more dry and tedious than statistics, unless the mind and imagination are set to work, or that the person studying is...