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. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
[Coining the phrase "test of significance"] Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question of producing… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
