Natural Selection Is Not Evolution.

After All, It Is A Common Weakness Of Young Authors To Put Too Much Into Their Papers.

More Attention To The History Of Science Is Needed, As Much By Scientists As By Historians, And Especially By Biologists, And This Should Mean A Deliberate Attempt To Understand The Thoughts Of The Great Masters Of The Past, To See In What Circumstances Or Intellectual Milieu Their Ideas Were Formed, Where They Took The Wrong Turning Or Stopped Short On The Right Track.

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.

... The Actual And Physical Conduct Of An Experiment Must Govern The Statistical Procedure Of Its Interpretation.

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.