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> [It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/it-was-darwin-s-chief-contribution-not-only-to-biology-but-to-the/)

[Ronald Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-fisher/)

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## More by Ronald Fisher

> [ \[Coining the phrase "test of significance"\] Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/coining-the-phrase-test-of-significance-critical-tests-of-this-kind/)

[Ronald Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-fisher/)

> [We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question of producing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/we-can-set-no-limit-to-human-potentialities-all-that-is-best-in-man/)

[Ronald Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-fisher/)

> [If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/if-we-choose-a-group-of-social-phenomena-with-no-antecedent-knowledge/)

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> [The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/the-statistician-cannot-evade-the-responsibility-for-understanding/)

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> [Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/modern-statisticians-are-familiar-with-the-notion-that-any-finite/)

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> [The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/the-academic-mind-as-we-know-is-sometimes-capable-of-assuming-an/)

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> [However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/however-perhaps-the-main-point-is-that-you-are-under-no-obligation-to/)

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> [... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/no-scientific-worker-has-a-fixed-level-of-significance-at-which-from/)

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> [The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/the-analysis-of-variance-is-not-a-mathematical-theorem-but-rather-a/)

[Ronald Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-fisher/)

> [Natural selection is not evolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/natural-selection-is-not-evolution/)

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> [The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/the-best-causes-tend-to-attract-to-their-support-the-worst-arguments/)

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> [If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/if-one-in-twenty-does-not-seem-high-enough-odds-we-may-if-we-prefer/)

[Ronald Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-fisher/)

> [No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/no-aphorism-is-more-frequently-repeated-in-connection-with-field/)

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> [We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/we-have-the-duty-of-formulating-of-summarizing-and-of-communicating/)

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> [Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/fairly-large-print-is-a-real-antidote-to-stiff-reading/)

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