Basic research (n.) is like buying lottery tickets for your grandchildren.
Basic research (n.) is useless for decades and then quietly inside everything.
Basic research (n.) is funded by committees that want to know in advance what it will find.
Basic research (n.) is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
Ethnographic research (n.) is best first begun by investigating the metacommunicative repertoire of the group in question.
Ethnographic research (n.) is always plagued by the problem of knowing if the responses mean the same thing to interviewee and the interviewer.
An Experiment (n.) is philosophy's bottleneck: the truths that remain need costly trials no private man can pay for, so the system stays unfinished for want of money.
An Experiment (n.) on a worthless body — in corpore vili — is what the manufacturers ran on their workers, changing the cotton 'mixings' week by week while wages swung by half.
Experiment (n.) and calculation are the poles between which human activities move.
An Experiment (n.) is one only from a certain point of view; deciphering with a key is no experiment.
Experimentation (n.) is to ethics what sophistry is to knowledge — the moment the ethicist's gymnastics become experiment, he has ceased to live ethically.
Experimentation (n.) is what replaces fate: with no destiny left, modern man is free to experiment on himself without limit.
Experimentation (n.) is curiosity that agreed to keep notes.
Experimentation (n.) is breaking a thing on purpose to see which piece mattered.