Hello there! Check out these six-word science stories from a recent issue of the journal Science, vol. 153 (1 July 2016), pp. 22-24. Here are six of our favorites:
- “Try. Fail. Try Harder. Fail again.” (Robert Kumsta, Psychology, Germany)
- “Frequently right. Never forgotten when wrong.” (Marian Peleski, Meteorolgy, USA)
- “The experiment failed. Or did I?” (Irina Tiper, Immunology, USA)
- “P equals 0.051. Repeat? Abandon? Bayes?” (Rosa Li, Psychology & Neuroscience, USA)
- “Dear incompetent reviewer, we fully agree.” (Mathias V. Schmidt, Neuroscience, Germany)
- “Epilogue: Changed the world, few knew.” (Greg Maguire, Physiology & Systems Biology, USA)
The first six-word story?
prior probability 
These have a kind of haiku quality