Molecular Biology Has Routinely Taken Problematic Things

Thers Is This Wonderful Iconoclast At Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, Who Says That Our Mathematics Is The Result Of A Random Walk, By Which He Means What We Call Mathematics. Likewise, I Think, For The Sciences.

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

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.

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

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.