Ronald Fisher Quotes
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.
The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.
The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.
After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.