27 Quotes About Methodology

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive feeling, growing rapidly, that what he had stumbled on was no small gimmick. It went far beyond. How far, he didn’t know.

The method of science is logical and rational; the method of the humanities is one of imagination, sympathetic understanding, ‘indwelling.

professionals who know what they are doing can "be counted on to follow a well-thought-out methodology

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

A change in Quantity also entails a change in Quality

There are so many ways to account for negative outcomes that it is safer to doubt one’s methods before doubting one’s subjects.

The worse thing that contemporary qualitative research can imply is that, in this post-modern age, anything goes. The trick is to produce intelligent, disciplined work on the very edge of the abyss.

There was a method, a toilsome, age-old plan for systematic research, a kind of combined steamroller and fine-toothed comb which (in theory) nothing could escape...