No Efforts Of Mine Could Avail To

Professor Eddington Has Recently Remarked That 'the Law That Entropy Always Increases - The Second Law Of Thermodynamics - Holds, I Think, The Supreme Position Among The Laws Of Nature'. It Is Not A Little Instructive That So Similar A Law [the Fundamental Theorem Of Natural Selection] Should Hold The Supreme Position Among The Biological Sciences.

[coining Phrase "null Hypothesis"] In Relation To Any Experiment We May Speak Of This Hypothesis As The "null Hypothesis," And It Should Be Noted That The Null Hypothesis Is Never Proved Or Established, But Is Possibly Disproved, In The Course Of Experimentation. Every Experiment May Be Said To Exist Only In Order To Give The Facts A Chance Of Disproving The Null Hypothesis.

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

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.

To Consult The Statistician After An Experiment Is Finished Is Often Merely To Ask Him To Conduct A Post Mortem Examination. He Can Perhaps Say What The Experiment Died Of.