Acceptance Means Commitment, Among Other Things.

Much Early Alchemy Seems To Have Been Adventure. You Heated And Mixed And Burnt And Pounded And To See What Would Happen. An Adventure Might Suggest An Hypothesis That Can Subsequently Be Tested, But Adventure Is Prior To Theory.

Plutonium Has A Quite Extraordinary Relationship With People. They Made It, And It Kills Them.

By Legend And Perhaps By Nature Philosophers Are More Accustomed To The Armchair Than The Workbench.

Experimental Work Provides The Strongest Evidence For Scientific Realism. This Is Not Because We Test Hypotheses About Entities. It Is Because Entities That In Principle Cannot Be 'observed' Are Manipulated To Produce A New Phenomena [sic] And To Investigate Other Aspects Of Nature.

Philosophers Of Science Constantly Discuss Theories And Representation Of Reality, But Say Almost Nothing About Experiment, Technology, Or The Use Of Knowledge To Alter The World. This Is Odd, Because 'experimental Method' Used To Be Just Another Name For Scientific Method.... I Hope [to] Initiate A Back-to-bacon Movement, In Which We Attend More Seriously To Experimental Science. Experimentation Has A Life Of Its Own.