Died Quote by Ronald Fisher

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may…

— Ronald Fisher

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment

— Ernest Rutherford

In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it: viz. from…

— Astley Cooper

“Kind of like CSI investigating a social error—Here’s the corpse of the situation, what do you think killed it?—with the hope of preventing further…

— Dani Harper

In collecting evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it; viz. from observation on…

— Astley Cooper

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

— Ronald Fisher

Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.

— Arthur Leonard Schawlow

“Sufficiently close examination changes the thing being observed.”

— Terry Pratchett

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

— Ernst Mach

most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the…

— Margaret Mead