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Statistics Quotes by Ronald Fisher
- Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
- I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men…
- The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man…
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a… — Douglas Adams
- The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. — Ernie Banks
- The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. — Douglas Adams
- In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was… — Dave Barry
- Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. — Marion Barry
- Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. — Jean Baudrillard
- We made too many wrong mistakes. — Yogi Berra