Clear Quote by Ronald Fisher

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of…

— Adrian Smith

I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially…

— Norbert Wiener

The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

— Ronald Fisher

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

— Ronald Fisher

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

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

— Ronald Fisher

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

— Ronald Fisher

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

— W. Edwards Deming

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

— E. M. Forster

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

— Bradley Efron

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to…

— Claude Shannon