Ronald Fisher

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R. A. Fisher

Sir Ronald Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician. He was the father-in-law of George Box.

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• Natural selection is not evolution.
  • First sentence of The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930)

• The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments.
  • Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference (1956), p. 31.

• To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a postmortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
  • Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya, around 1938. (from [1])

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• Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
  • To Julian Huxley

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