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• Finagle's First Law: To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.
  Finagle's Second Law: Always keep a record of data -- it indicates you've been working....
• Always draw your curves then plot the readings.
• Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
• 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....
• Always keep a record of data; it indicates you've been working. -- Finagle's Second Rule
• Finagle's Third Law: In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.
• In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.
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• In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake -- Finagle's Third Law (1) Nobody whom you ask for help will see it.
  (2) The first person who stops by, whose advice you really don't want to hear, will see it immediately....
• Finagle's Third Law: In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake Corollarie
  (1) Nobody whom you ask for help will see it....