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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

This Is Perhaps The Most Important Book On Evolutionary Genetics Ever Written

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.

Modern Statisticians Are Familiar With The Notion That Any Finite Body Of Data Contains Only A Limited Amount Of Information On Any Point Under Examination; That This Limit Is Set By The Nature Of The Data Themselves, And Cannot Be Increased By Any Amount Of Ingenuity Expended In Their Statistical Examination: That The Statistician's Task, In Fact, Is Limited To The Extraction Of The Whole Of The Available Information On Any Particular Issue.

The Best Time To Plan An Experiment Is After You've Done It.