Quotes on Statistics

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?