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.

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

Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists.

A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.

You’re in the country of the kangaroo and the duck-billed platypus, and you’re asking ‘why is it a mushroom? Because it just IS.

In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

I haven't backed down from a fight in my life, and I won't start tonight.

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.