If there are some subjects on which the results obtained have finally received the unanimous assent of all who have attended to the proof, and others which... have never succeeded in estab lishing any considerable body of truths, so as to be beyond denial or doubt; it is by generalizing the methods successfully followed in the former enquiries, and adapting them to the latter, that we may hope to remove this blot on the face of science. John Stuart Mill Some of the major disasters of mankind have been produced by the narrowness of men with a good methodology.... To set limits to speculation is treason to the future.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Lee S. Shulman (1970) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched one closely related paper. Consider it for comparative context: