"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."
— Ernest Rutherford

January 1, 1970

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As quoted by Norman T. J. Bailey, The Mathematical Approach to Biology and Medicine (1967), Chapter 2, "The Role of Probability and Statistics"