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• Futility Factor: No experiment is ever a complete failure -- it can always serve as a negative example.
  Fulton's Law of Gravity: The effort of catching a falling object will cause more destruction than if the object had been allowed to fall in the first place....
• Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example. -- Carlson's Consolatio
• Carson's Consolation: Nothing is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
• Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example.
• 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....
• Wyszkowski's First Law: No experiment is reproducible.
• No experiment is reproducible. -- Wyszowski's First Law
• ARTIFACT: The only true fact in an experiment.
• Geraldo: Genetic experiment gone bad? Next on Oprah!