"Statistics must have a clearly defined purpose, one aspect of which is scientific advancement and the other human welfare and national development."
– "Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write."
"I wish to suggest that the concept of similarity, or, more generally, the concept of distance in a broad sense, is one of the fundamental concepts in human knowledge."
"The process of selection and planning involves both theory and practice, and the more skillful the blending, the better the result."
"Statistics has played an important part in the development of scientific methods and also in the evolution of various disciplines."
"The success of any statistical investigation depends on the skillful application of scientific methods and the proper understanding of the problem in its entirety."