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Ronald Fisher Quotes

English - Mathematician | February 17, 1890 - July 29, 1962

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.

Say Ask Him Experiment Post He

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Done Say More Him Experiment Asking

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Degree High Natural Natural Selection

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

Women Experience Men Research

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

Research Natural Remedy Been Found

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

Analysis Rather Convenient Theorem

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

Free Decisions Recognition Duty Own

Natural selection is not evolution.

Evolution Natural Natural Selection

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

Work Truth Great Stress Detail Way

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