If You Were Just Intent On Killing

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

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.

The Best Reaction To A Paradox Is To Invent A Genuinely New And Deep Idea.

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.

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.