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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…

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We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism…
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in…
No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in…
We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or…
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one…
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching…
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern…
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of…

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To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He… — Ronald Fisher
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