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“Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.”

Quote by Ronald Fisher

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Ronald Fisher (February 17, 1890 – July 29, 1962) was a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist, regarded as one of the founders of modern statistics. He developed key statistical methods such as analysis of variance, maximum likelihood estimation, and Fisher's exact test, and applied statistical theory to genetics and evolutionary biology, contributing to the modern evolutionary synthesis. Fisher studied mathematics and physics at Cambridge University, later worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station and University College London, and spent his final years in Australia. His work profoundly influenced experimental design, biostatistics, and population genetics, though his support for eugenics remains controversial. more

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“I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological conditions to be considered, would ever conceive that everything could be summed up in a single mathematical formula, however complex.”

Believe I Believe Special Conditions Fields Complexes Familiar Mathematical Range Formulas

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“However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful.”

Ifs Doe Lines Approach Obligation Variance

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“[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.”

Giving Should May Said Facts Order Courses Speak Chance Relation Experiments Phrases Hypothesis Experimentation Null

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“The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.”

Knows Mind Art Self Sometimes Attitude Capable Assuming Contrary Experts Officials Aggressive Academic Defence Self Defence

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“After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.”

Young Common Too Much Paper Weakness Papers

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“The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.”

Cutting Regard Data Analysis Efficient Unfortunate Thorough Short Cuts

Author:Ronald Fisher

“Faith does not mean credulity...”

Author:Ronald Fisher

“More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.”

Should Mean Ideas Past Attention Masters Needed Circumstances Intellectual Scientist Track Historian Deliberate Biologist History Of Science Right Track Milieu Wrong Turn

Author:Ronald Fisher

“No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or more sexes; yet what else should he do if he wishes to understand why the sexes are, in fact, always two?”

Ifs Should Two Facts Would Be Three Wish Sex Consequence Work Out Practicals Organisms Reproduction Biologist

Author:Ronald Fisher

“No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.”

Book Reading Easy Effort Mines

Author:Ronald Fisher