This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written
- Ronald Fisher
More Quotes By Ronald Fisher
- No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.
- A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin ‘s Origin (this as...
- To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a...
- We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition...
- The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress...
- The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific...
- Faith does not mean credulity…
- If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the...
- However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts...
- No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for...
- No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few...
- [Coining phrase “null hypothesis”] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the “null...
- The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.
- If … we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence...
- The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.
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