I think a variant from A Random Walk in Science was "The experiment failed, so we had to use statistics", which I appreciate up to a point. However, I'd hope t

I think a variant from A Random Walk in Science was "The experiment failed, so we had to use statistics", which I appreciate up to a point. However, I'd hope that physicists calculate error estimates in some sense, and goodness of fit. You hear the statistical significance of results from CERN, for instance.