“The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said—has been said—that there is a distinctive methodology of science which scientists practice unwittingly, like the chap in Molière who found that all his life, unknowingly, he had been speaking prose.”
Quote by Peter B. Medawar
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Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society
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