As scientists, we like to make our theories as delicate and fragile as possible. We like to arrange things so that if the slightest thing goes wrong, everything will collapse at once! Why do scientists use such shaky strategies? So that when anything goes wrong, they'll be the first to notice it.
Marvin Minsky, Society of Mind (Simon & Schulster 1988), 193.
Sounds like a prudent principle. Pity scientists don't apply that to evolutionary theory, global warming, &c.
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