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Book: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
A man conducting a gee-whiz science show with fifty thousand dollars' worth of Frankenstein equipment is not doing anything scientific if he knows beforehand what the results of his efforts are going to be. A motorcycle mechanic, on the other hand, who honks the horn to see if the battery works is informally conducting a true scientific experiment. He is testing a hypothesis by putting the question to nature.
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