More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deli… - Ronald Fisher

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More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.

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About Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician. He was the father-in-law of George Box.

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Native Name: Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Alternative Names: Ronald A. Fisher • Ronald Aylmer Fisher • R. A. Fisher • Sir Ronald Fisher
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He is an ambitious politician of a type likely to become prevalent in a system avowedly guided by a rigid ideology, who hopes to use the ideological dogmas to which he finds his colleagues committed as levers for his own advancement in the party and in the state.
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