"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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Source : Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya 4, 14-17, 1938.

Ronald Fisher

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“I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.”

Source : "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real,”
“The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.”
“I don't know why I've spent over half of My life talking about dying”
“I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.”
“I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.”
“[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.”
“There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.”

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