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(Even) if the interceptor hits the (mock warhead), it could still not be a successful integrated systems test because there could be other parts of the test that failed,


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FRANCIS BACON The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore...
FRANCIS BACON Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
FRANCIS BACON It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and...
FRANCIS BACON Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...
FRANCIS BACON For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next age...
FRANCIS BACON A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
FRANCIS BACON Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
FRANCIS BACON Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
FRANCIS BACON I would live to study, and not study to live.
FRANCIS BACON Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than conf...
FRANCIS BACON For knowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
FRANCIS BACON Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
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