"If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all."

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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 Moliere who found that all his life, unknowingly, he had been speaking prose.

— Peter Medawar