Famous quote by Ronald Fisher

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"The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles"

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This quote is written / told by Ronald Fisher between February 17, 1890 and July 29, 1962. He/she was a famous Mathematician from England. The author also have 8 other quotes.

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