<blockquote>
  <p>The mathematics are not there for the joy of the analyst but because
  they are essential to the solution.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>--Karl Pearson, Notes on the History of Correlation (1920).</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is
  always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that
  experts fall for.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>--Amos Tversky</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>It is largely because of lack of knowledge of what statistics is that
  the person untrained in it trusts himself with a tool quite as
  dangerous as any he may pick out from the whole armamentarium of
  scientific methodology.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>--Edwin B. Wilson (1927), quoted in Stephen M. Stigler, The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom.</p>

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