Ronald Fisher

Mathematician

1890-02-17

Quotes by Ronald Fisher

• The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

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• We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

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• The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

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