The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

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 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

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.

Choice is the basis of every part of your existence, but so is fear. The difference is, choice creates movement, where fear limits movement.

Chit impurity is due to the relative vision. When the vision becomes real (enlightened), purification of chit occurs.

Third, the Stubborn Mind: These are the people who are not willing to explore the intuitions hidden in their religious holy scriptures towards the Soul-Realisation.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

Retiring is getting ready to die.

We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.