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 Quotes
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
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| Birth: | 17th February, 1890 |
| Death: | 29th July, 1962 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Mathematician |
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and geneticist.
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