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Men may be divided almost any way we please, but I have found the most useful distinction to be made between those who devote their lives to conjugating the verb 'to be,' and those who spend their lives conjugating the verb 'to have.' Sydney J. Harris		Sunday Jul 06, 2025
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To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking hm to perform a postmortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

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	Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
	Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 - 29 July 1962) was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist. He was described by Anders Hald as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" and Richard Dawkins described him as "the greatest of Darwin's successors". Read More

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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking hm to perform a postmortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.