Quotes by Ronald Fisher

Ronald Fisher

… no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he rather gives his mind to each particular case in the light of his evidence and his ideas.

Ideas

Light

Years

… the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

Interpretation

Procedures

Statistics

[Coining phrase “null hypothesis”] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the “null hypothesis,” and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.

Giving

Null

Order

[Coining the phrase “test of significance”] Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first.

Different

May

Phrases

A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin ‘s Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century

Book

Evolution

Men

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

Paper

Too Much

Weakness

Although no explanation can be expected to be satisfactory, it remains a possibility among others that Mendel was deceived by some assistant who knew too well what was expected. This possibility is supported by independent evidence that the data of most, if not all, of the experiments have been falsified so as to agree closely with Mendel’s expectations.

Data

Expectations

Independent

Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

Experience

Knowledge

Science

Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

Reading

Real

Faith does not mean credulity…

Credulity

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Different

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Done

Effort

Evolution

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Experiments

Fields

Found

Fundamentals

Genetics

Giving

Groups

Ideas

Important

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Law

Light

Lines

Math

Matter

May

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Nature

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Quotes by Ronald Fisher

Ronald Fisher

… no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he rather gives his mind to each particular case in the light of his evidence and his ideas.

… the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

[Coining the phrase “test of significance”] Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first.

A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin ‘s Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

Faith does not mean credulity…

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