Faith Does Not Mean Credulity...

No Efforts Of Mine Could Avail To Make The Book Easy Reading.

If ... We Choose A Group Of Social Phenomena With No Antecedent Knowledge Of The Causation Or Absence Of Causation Among Them, Then The Calculation Of Correlation Coefficients, Total Or Partial, Will Not Advance Us A Step Toward Evaluating The Importance Of The Causes At Work.

Although No Explanation Can Be Expected To Be Satisfactory, It Remains A Possibility Among Others That Mendel Was Deceived By Some Assistant Who Knew Too Well What Was Expected. This Possibility Is Supported By Independent Evidence That The Data Of Most, If Not All, Of The Experiments Have Been Falsified So As To Agree Closely With Mendel's Expectations.

Natural Selection Is A Mechanism For Generating An Exceedingly High Degree Of Improbability.

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.