[coining The Phrase "test Of Significance"] Critical

Faith Does Not Mean Credulity...

No Aphorism Is More Frequently Repeated In Connection With Field Trials, Than That We Must Ask Nature Few Questions, Or, Ideally, One Question, At A Time. The Writer Is Convinced That This View Is Wholly Mistaken. Nature, He Suggests, Will Best Respond To A Logical And Carefully Thought Out Questionnaire; Indeed, If We Ask Her A Single Question, She Will Often Refuse To Answer Until Some Other Topic Has Been Discussed.

The Academic Mind, As We Know, Is Sometimes Capable Of Assuming An Aggressive Attitude. The Official Mind, On The Contrary, Is And Has To Be, Expert In The Art Of Self-defence.

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.

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.