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The Important Thing Is To Be Able To Understand Anyone Who Has Something Useful To Say. - There Is A General Moral Here. Be Very Careful And Very Clear About What You Say. But Do Not Be Dogmatic About Your Own Language. Be Prepared To Express Any Careful Thought In The Language Your Audience Will Understand. And Be Prepared To Learn From Someone Who Talks A Language With Which You Are Not Familiar.

Statistics Began As The Systematic Study Of Quantitative Facts About The State.

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

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.

We Favor Hypotheses For Their Simplicity And Explanatory Power, Much As The Architect Of The World Might Have Done In Choosing Which Possibility To Create.