After All, It Is A Common Weakness

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.

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.

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

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.

Natural Selection Is Not Evolution. Yet, Ever Since The Two Words Have Been In Common Use, The Theory Of Natural Selection Has Been Employed As A Convenient Abbreviation For The Theory Of Evolution By Means Of Natural Selection, Put Forward By Darwin And Wallace. This Has Had The Unfortunate Consequence That The Theory Of Natural Selection Itself Has Scarcely Ever, If Ever, Received Separate Consideration.