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Correlation is not causation (???)
No causation without manipulation. (Holland)
All models are wrong, some are useful. (Box)
Statistics is the science of uncertainty. (arguably Tukey)
Statistics is the science of learning from experience, especially experience that arrives a little bit at a time. (Efron)

jwmerrill commented Dec 1, 2015

Probabilities do not describe reality—only our information about reality. (Jaynes)

ahupowerdns commented Dec 1, 2015

"99% of people have more legs than average"

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