I Have This Extraordinary Curiosity About All

From Any Vocabulary Of Ideas We Can Build Other Ideas By Formal Combinations Of Signs. But Not Any Set Of Ideas Will Be Instructive. One Must Have The Right Ideas.

Probability Fractions Arise From Our Knowledge And From Our Ignorance.

In Each Case You Settle On An Act. Doing Nothing At All Counts As An Act.

The Bad Player Is The One Who Tries To Calculate And Play With The Odds, As If His Game, His Life, Were One Of A Large Number Of Games. To Do So Is At Best To Succumb To Another Necessity, The Necessity Of Large Numbers. The Good Player Does Not Fool Himself, And Accepts That There Is Exactly One Chance, Which Produces By Chance The Necessity And Even The Purpose That He Experiences.

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.