When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough

One Can't Predict The Weather More Than A Few Days In Advance.

Not Only That God Does Play Dice, But That He Sometimes Confuses Us By Throwing Them Where They Can't Be Seen.

The Wise Never Marry, And When They Marry They Become Otherwise.

Only A Very Few Would Allow Creatures Like Us To Exist. Thus Our Presence Selects Out From This Vast Array Only Those Universes That Are Compatible With Our Existence. Although We Are Puny And Insignificant On The Scale Of The Cosmos, This Makes Us In A Sense The Lords Of Creation.

Maybe I'm Being A Bit Harsh On Philosophers, But They Have Not Been Very Kind To Me... I Have Been Variously Called Nominalist, An Instrumentalist, A Positivist, A Realist, And Several Other Ists. The Technique Seems Refutation By Denigration: If You Can Attach A Label To My Approach, You Don't Have To Say What Is Wrong With It... I Am Sure That Einstein, Heisenberg And Dirac Didn't Worry About Whether They Were Realists Or Instrumentalists.