
The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom

Second, anything we choose to measure will differ from place to place, from person to person, from time to time, and the problem is to extract meaningful insights from all this apparently random variability.
David Spiegelhalter • The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data (Pelican Books)

statistics became a model-blind data-reduction enterprise,
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why

“Where wisdom once was, quantification will now be.
Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
