The Best Reaction To A Paradox Is

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

We Favor Hypotheses For Their Simplicity And Explanatory Power, Much As The Architect Of The World Might Have Done In Choosing Which Possibility To Create.

Statistics Began As The Systematic Study Of Quantitative Facts About The State.

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.

Probability Fractions Arise From Our Knowledge And From Our Ignorance.