TV scientist mutters sadly, “The experiment a failure; failed achieve — Robert M. Pirsig, Zen Art Motorcycle Maintenance: Inquiry Values

Robert M. Pirsig the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Zen

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The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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