Top 32 Ronald Fisher Quotes

#1. Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

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#2. No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.

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#6. No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

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#7. If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

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#8. (Coining the phrase 'test of significance'): Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first.

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#9. A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century

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#10. After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

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#11. 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.

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#12. The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

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#13. No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or more sexes; yet what else should he do if he wishes to understand why the sexes are, in fact, always two?

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#14. The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

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#15. 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.

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

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#17. 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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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. The actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

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#22. However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful.

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#23. We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.

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#24. Faith Is Not Credulity.

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#25. The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

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#26. Natural selection is not evolution.

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#27. We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors.

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#28. 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.

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#29. This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

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#30. The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

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#31. Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

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#32. I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological conditions to be considered, would ever conceive that everything could be summed up in a single mathematical formula, however complex.

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