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It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which…

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We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism…
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in…
No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in…
We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or…
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one…
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching…
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern…
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of…

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us… — Morris Raphael Cohen
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where… — Alex Kozinski
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B.F. Skinner
[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . . — Alexander Hamilton
Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I… — Randy Pausch
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed… — Stephen Batchelor
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. — B.F. Skinner
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency… — Dan Quayle
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to… — Alain Badiou
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and… — Manuel De Landa

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