Controlled Burns

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    Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.
    Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970)

    Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
    —George Burns (b. 1896)