• Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

    Florence Nightingale: Statistics is the most important science in the whole world:  for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art:  the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.