Fisher Quote by Anders Hald

“He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical mechanics, to…

— Basil Mahon

“The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere…

— Stephen Senn

“Einstein had, for the first time connected new and measurable consequences to statistical physics. That might sound like a largely technical achievement, but on…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“I’ve come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. I didn’t want to accept that…

— John Taylor Gatto

“Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were first discovered.”

— Alex Bellos

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

“Some positive thinkers get consistent powerful results almost deserving of a scientific formula”

— Victor Manan Nyambala

“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job. Now he…

— China Miéville

I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects…

— Fred Hoyle

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar

“No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in…

— Max Weber

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

— Persis Khambatta