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There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering.
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See also: | Engineering (38) | Fact (146) | Guess (6) | Magic (10) | Murphy's Law (2) | Philosophy (77) | School (18) | Science (463) | Universe (143)
