By Legend And Perhaps By

Every Once In A While, Something Happens To You That Makes You Realise That The Human Race Is Not Quite As Bad As It So Often Seems To Be.

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.

There Are Two Ways In Which A Science Develops; In Response To Problems Which Is Itself Creates, And In Response To Problems That Are Forced On It From The Outside.

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.

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.