The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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