“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.” WayYearsMadeProblemWould BeFoundLinesSimpleResultsTheoryPureResearchDiscoveryWork OutInventionConstructsExperimentationDiscarded Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.” IfsDoeSaidCharacterTurnsSexResultsBehindsIdentityExpressionConsequenceGenderDistinctionConstructsBeing ThereGender IdentitySex And Gender Author:Judith Butler
“A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without necessarily intending them to be the prototype for serial production. As a result, there became available a body of knowledge about what would work and what would not work.” WorldBodyResultsGroupsSourceComputerPreparedProductionsVariousAvailableConstructsSerialsPrototypeSource Of Strength Author:Maurice Wilkes
“However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive values n=2,3,.. up to, say, n=100. If the result of at least one test were negative, the hypothesis would prove to be false; otherwise our confidence in the hypothesis would increase, and we should feel encouraged to attempt establishing the hypothesis, instead of trying to construct a counterexample.” IfsFeelsShouldTryingScienceValuesResultsSpecialProveNegativeTestsMachinesIncreaseMathematicsPermitConstructsHypothesisSequenceConsecutive Author:Alfred Tarski
“The method of differences is, in fact, a method of additions; and as it includes within its means a larger number of results attainable by addition simply, than any other mathematical principle, it was very appropriately selected as the basis on which to construct an Adding Machine, so as to give to the powers of such a machine the widest possible range.” GivingMeanFactsDifferencesResultsNumbersPrinciplesMachinesBasesMethodMathematicalRangeConstructsSelected Author:Ada Lovelace