Fairly Large Print Is A Real Antidote

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.

The So-called Co-efficient Of Heritability, Which I Regard As One Of Those Unfortunate Short-cuts, Which Have Often Emerged In Biometry For Lack Of A More Thorough Analysis Of The Data.

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.

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

Fairly Large Print Is A Real Antidote To Stiff Reading.