Ronald Fisher

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

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 and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

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

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.

Natural selection is not evolution.