The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

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.

Faith does not mean credulity...

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!

This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe.

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.