To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
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Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)