How science progresses

Progress in science is won by the application of an informed imagination to a problem of genuine consequence; not by the habitual application of some formulaic mode of inquiry to a set of quasi-problems chosen chiefly because of their compatibility with the adopted method.

Daniel N. Robinson, »Paradigms and ›the Myth of Framework‹: How Science progresses«, Theory & Psychology 10, nr 1 (2000): 41, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354300101004 .