Archive for October, 2015

Aphorisms: Seeing and Believing

Friday, October 30th, 2015

Seeing is believing, but anecdotal evidence is not real evidence. It’s easy to see things that aren’t there. It’s easy to believe things that aren’t true. The scientific method is formalized distrust of personal experience and experiential evidence in general. If you believe everything you think you see, and if you accept as truth everything […]

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Aphorisms: Save A Penny

Wednesday, October 28th, 2015

A penny saved is just a penny.

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Aphorisms: Judging a book

Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

You can tell a lot about a book by its cover. Sure, you won’t be 100% certain, but the cover gives away a lot about what will be inside. It’s supposed to. The best science fiction has cut rate artwork. Any cover that says this is “book 7 of the Blah Trilogy” will be vastly […]

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