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“Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.”

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Book:The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
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“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.”

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Book:The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
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