Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

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.

Faith does not mean credulity...

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

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 best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

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.

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

We're a mess, Kate.

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world.

I needed to wake up, stand up, and fight.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.