We Favor Hypotheses For Their Simplicity And

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

Probability Fractions Arise From Our Knowledge And From Our Ignorance.

Cutting Up Fowl To Predict The Future Is, If Done Honestly And With As Little Interpretation As Possible, A Kind Of Randomization. But Chicken Guts Are Hard To Read And Invite Flights Of Fancy Or Corruption.

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.

A Single Observation That Is Inconsistent With Some Generalization Points To The Falsehood Of The Generalization, And Thereby 'points To Itself'.