Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

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

Life as we know it is merely a dream within dreams.

The universe does not work in phrases

a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after, be a kinder person because of it...

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that's going to eat you.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.