No Efforts Of Mine Could Avail To

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.

A Book That I Rate Only Second In Importance In Evolution Theory To Darwin 's Origin (this As Joined With Its Supplement Of Man), And Also Rate As Undoubtedly One Of The Greatest Books Of The Twentieth Century

The Best Causes Tend To Attract To Their Support The Worst Arguments, Which Seems To Be Equally True In The Intellectual And In The Moral Sense.

The Statistician Cannot Excuse Himself From The Duty Of Getting His Head Clear On The Principles Of Scientific Inference, But Equally No Other Thinking Man Can Avoid A Like Obligation.

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