Seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead It will become all too clear that an ability to see patterns in behavior, an ability that some might feel proud of, can lead more easily to a wrong description than a right one. William T. Powers The goal of the theorist-the scholar-is to take a collection of observations of the world, and perceive order in them. This process necessarily imposes an artificial simplicity upon those observations. That is, specific observations are weighed differently from each other whenever a theoretical account is abstracted from raw experiences. Some...
Seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead It will become all too clear that an ability to see patterns in behavior, an ability that some...