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

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.

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

It takes someone pretty persistent to stick it out with me.

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.

I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams

I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well