M o r e Basic Precepts of Science Seradipity. "Luck" is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. The Detergent Dilemma. The lot of the successful chemist is a lifetime of (1) asking questions and (2) washing glassware afterward. ?'he Statistician's P~eamble. As the correlation between predirt,ion and observation passes 0.75 and heads toward 1.0, t h ~ competent scientist will pause and ask one vital question: "Is the data being tabulated from the same experiment as the one on which the oredietion was bused?"
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The Pedagogue's Praetzeum. You can no more teach what you do not know than you can come back from where you have not been. Gumpe~son'sSecond Law. I n the laboratory, attention should be directed toward increasing that commodity indicated by the first five letters and toward diminishing that rommodity indirated by the last seven. GENEDOTY HII.I.SBOROUNIONHIGHS C H O ~ I . HILLSROEO, On~aos
