We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it … - Ronald Fisher

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Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.

Ronald Fisher

We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question of producing a highly efficient machine,. . . but of quickening all the distinctly human features, all that is best in man, all the different qualities, some obvious, some infinitely subtle, which we recognize as humanly excellent.

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To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

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The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

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No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

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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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