George Gallup



George Gallup (November 18, 1901 – July 26, 1984) was an American statistician. He invented the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.

Quotes
“If democracy is based on the will of the people, shouldn’t we find out what that will is?”-
 * I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone — the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
 * Quoted in Readers Digest (October 1943)