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
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.
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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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