Statistics is the grammar of science.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.