... 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.
Ronald FisherNatural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
Ronald FisherThe analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
Ronald FisherThe best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.
Ronald Fisher