"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read or write."
— Statistics

January 1, 1970

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The actual quote referenced mathematics in general rather than statistics: — The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex world-wide States that are now devel