Methodology Quotes

“A good functional programming style is not a panacea, it does not magically solve all problems, but it is a good discipline.”

“There is no excuse for failing to plot and look.”

“Scientific forecasting... is the only legitimate and logical method of getting at the truth.”

“It's a lot of fun to blow soap bubbles, but it's wiser to determine the composition of the soap.”

“My primary aim is to understand, not to refute.”

“The events, procedures, and results that constitute the sciences have no common structure.”

“Each pattern is a three-part rule, which expresses a relation between a certain context, a problem, and a solution.”

“A pattern language is a system which allows its users to create an infinite variety of new and unique buildings, just as a language allows its users to create an infinite variety of sentences.”

“Commit your discoveries to writing. Meticulous recording of your experiments is even more important than the experiments themselves.”

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”

“The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.”

“Observation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.”

“The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.”

“We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.”

“A hypothesis is an idea which is submitted to the control of the experiment.”

“A science is not a collection of results. It is a way of thinking.”

“There seems to be a great danger in the prevailing overemphasis on the deductive-axiomatic method.”

“If you want to understand function, study structure.”

“He had the power of keeping the subject in hand, and of using his facts to the utmost.”

“The axiomatization of economic theory has been a main scientific activity of the last fifty years.”