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

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 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

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.

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

When we got married, we agreed on a boy for me, and a girl for you. Mine's upstairs sleeping. Good luck with yours!

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.