Related:

• Law of Continuity: Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail the same way.
• Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way.
• Experiments should be reproducable, - they should all fail in the same way.
• 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....
• Standstill is giving way. Good fortune for the great man.
  "What if it should fail, what if it should fail?" In this way, he ties it to a cluster of mulberry shoots....
• And if one bad cluster should accidentally fail...
• Why should I be the one to do it? Why should it be done at all?
  Why should it be done now? Why should it be done this way?...
• Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
  You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid....
• No man should be without a beer. -- Rule #1