No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.
Interpretation
No single experiment can prove a natural phenomenon, as rarity and frequency balance in nature.
Ronald Fisher emphasizes that individual experiments, no matter how groundbreaking, are not enough to demonstrate the validity of a natural phenomenon. He points out that unexpected outcomes, though surprising, are part of the natural order and will occur at their expected rates. This conveys the importance of replication and statistical validity in scientific research.
In practice
In a scientific conference discussing the importance of experimental replication.
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
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.
The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the maintenance, with the internal environment, of all the conditions necessary for the life of the elements.
Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.
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