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Quotes About Methodology

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
~ Ernest Rutherford
Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.
~ Edgar Mitchell
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
~ Stefan Molyneux
I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.
~ Frederic Joliot-Curie
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
~ Elbert Hubbard
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.
~ Walther Nernst
Methodological naturalism is a "ground rule" of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify
~ Robert T. Pennock
Today's science is yesterday's magic, friend Oak. Today's magic is tomorrow's science. All disciplines are tangent and the differences between them often nothing more substantial than semantics. Scientists or laibon who dismiss conclusions out of hand because they do not countenance the methodology utilized to reach them forfeit their title.
~ Alan Dean Foster
We've made the mistake of trying to copy the methodology of "success" rather than the process behind the methodology.
~ Don Cousins
Dave West of Forrester Research came up with a term for this: "Water-Scrum-Fall."6) In other words, they've become the most efficient waterfall team that they can be.
~ Andrew Stellman
Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.
~ Angela Carter
I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You'd just tick and cross, whereas if you're an English teacher, you've got to read essays. Then they said I had to analyse the methodology. It takes an eternity, it's insane!
~ Romesh Ranganathan
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.
~ Matt Cameron
It is processes that are important.
~ Anand Mahindra
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
~ Abraham Maslow
hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was more than a methodology. It was an ethos.
~ Robin Wasserman
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
The Biblical educator must not only have a Christian understanding of the material, he must have a Biblical understanding of the student. If he does not, then the result will be a hybrid Christian methodology employed to achieve a humanistic goal.
~ Douglas Wilson
The iterative piece of agile can be defined by four key terms: iterative, feature-based, timeboxed, and incremental.
~ Jim Highsmith
Agility is more attitude than process, more environment than methodology.
~ Jim Highsmith
Regardless of the methodology used, before you decide to get into the market you have to decide where (price) or when (time) or why (new information) you will no longer want the position.
~ Jim Paul
One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.
~ Matthew Stewart
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
~ Sergei Eisenstein