Ronald Fisher Quotes

• 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.

  Ronald Fisher

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  Tags in Stress

• 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.

  Ronald Fisher

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Experiment, Statistician

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

  Ronald Fisher

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  Tags in Analysis, Convenient

• Natural selection is not evolution.

  Ronald Fisher

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

  Ronald Fisher

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  Tags in High, Natural

• 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.

  Ronald Fisher

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  Tags in Women, Men, Believe

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

  Ronald Fisher

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  Tags in Research, Natural

• 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.

  Ronald Fisher

  Topics in Decisions

• Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn’t come out we’d have been very disappointed.

  Ronald Fisher

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hell

• 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.

  Ronald Fisher

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Ronald Fisher (10)

Birth:	17th February, 1890
Death:	29th July, 1962
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Mathematician

About

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and geneticist.

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