Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.
Faith is not credulity.
In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
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 best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.
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.
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
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