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It is always a good plan for a speculative experimenter to have two experiments going, or at least one going and one being built.

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If several directions seem captivating, consider crafting more than one experiment at a time. Working on several often brings about a healthy sense of detachment.

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A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

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What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

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It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed in the conducting of experiments, which cannot well be described in words, but which it is needless to describe, since practice will necessarily suggest them; though, like all other arts in which the hands and fingers are made use of, it is only much practice that can enable a person to go through complex experiments, of this or any kind, with ease and readiness.

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