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.

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

Invest time, energy, and money into increasing your knowledge and wisdom so you can become the best you can be – it’s the best investment you could make.

Well, someone slap my butt and give me a hero cookie. (Nick)

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.

It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to long tones.

The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.