The Statistician Cannot Evade The

The Best Time To Plan An Experiment Is After You've Done It.

I Believe Sanity And Realism Can Be Restored To The Teaching Of Mathematical Statistics Most Easily And Directly By Entrusting Such Teaching Largely To Men And Women Who Have Had Personal Experience Of Research In The Natural Sciences.

[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.

After All, It Is A Common Weakness Of Young Authors To Put Too Much Into Their Papers.

The Neutral Zone Of Selective Advantage In The Neighbourhood Of Zero Is Thus So Narrow That Changes In The Environment, And In The Genetic Constitution Of Species, Must Cause This Zone To Be Crossed And Perhaps Recrossed Relatively Rapidly In The Course Of Evolutionary Change, So That Many Possible Gene Substitutions May Have A Fluctuating History Of Advance And Regression Before The Final Balance Of Selective Advantage Is Determined.