Science & Life

Posted on May 12, 2012 by alberom

In the 1800’s Thomas Huxley, a highly respected scientist and bulldog defender of Darwin, once said, “The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” I should like to add to that: A great tragedy of life – the slaying of beautiful ideals and ideas by harsh realities.

About alberom

I am a retired Mathematical Statistics professor and I have written one textbook, Applied Statistics for Science and Industry, published by Allyn and Bacon, and I have coauthored a second textbook, Business Statistics: Elements and Applications, published by Harper Collins. I also have another blog at stats101-alberto.blogspot.com.
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