Inductive Inference Is The Only

No Isolated Experiment, However Significant In Itself, Can Suffice For The Experimental Demonstration Of Any Natural Phenomenon; For The "one Chance In A Million" Will Undoubtedly Occur, With No Less And No More Than Its Appropriate Frequency, However Surprised We May Be That It Should Occur To Us.

Experimental Observations Are Only Experience Carefully Planned In Advance, And Designed To Form A Secure Basis Of New Knowledge.

I Believe That No One Who Is Familiar, Either With Mathematical Advances In Other Fields, Or With The Range Of Special Biological Conditions To Be Considered, Would Ever Conceive That Everything Could Be Summed Up In A Single Mathematical Formula, However Complex.

It Was Darwin's Chief Contribution, Not Only To Biology But To The Whole Of Natural Science, To Have Brought To Light A Process By Which Contingencies A Priori Improbable, Are Given, In The Process Of Time, An Increasing Probability, Until It Is Their Non-occurrence Rather Than Their Occurrence Which Becomes Highly Improbable.

I Believe Sanity And Realism Can Be Restored To The Teaching Of Mathematical Statistics Most Easily And Directly By Entrusting Such Teaching Largely To Men And Women Who Have Had Personal Experience Of Research In The Natural Sciences.