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• Law of Continuity: Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail the same way.
• Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail in the same way. -- Finagle's Fifth Rule
• Experiments should be reproducable, - they should all fail in the same way.
• Finagle's Rules Ever since the first scientific experiment, man has been plagued by the increasing antagonism of nature.
  It seems only right that nature should be logical and neat, but experience has shown that this is not the case....
• Standstill is giving way. Good fortune for the great man.
  "What if it should fail, what if it should fail?" In this way, he ties it to a cluster of mulberry shoots....
• It is not enough that I should succeed. Others must fail.
  -- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's [Also attributed to David Merrick....
• it is done by a man who cannot afford to fail, one whose unique position depends upon the fact that all he does must succeed.
  A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man....
• Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.
  All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests....
• It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal