not a bad approximation of the "Scientific Method". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
and
http://tinyurl.com/2mnno6
"The successes of the scientific method, to say nothing of our everyday experience, ought to have taught us all by now that this faculty called reason only works well when it is fed a carefully prepared diet of quantifiable, verifiable data from the outer world. And even then it is apt to go wrong, so the results we get must always be held lightly, as current best estimates, rather than tightly, as eternal truths. Eternal truths too often begin to look like weapons, and weapons tightly held are too often used."
and
http://tinyurl.com/2mnno6
"The successes of the scientific method, to say nothing of our everyday experience, ought to have taught us all by now that this faculty called reason only works well when it is fed a carefully prepared diet of quantifiable, verifiable data from the outer world. And even then it is apt to go wrong, so the results we get must always be held lightly, as current best estimates, rather than tightly, as eternal truths. Eternal truths too often begin to look like weapons, and weapons tightly held are too often used."
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