If You Were Just Intent On Killing

There Are Two Ways In Which A Science Develops; In Response To Problems Which Is Itself Creates, And In Response To Problems That Are Forced On It From The Outside.

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.

When Land And Its Tillage Are The Basis Of Taxation, One Need Not Care Exactly How Many People There Are.

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

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.