Footnote Physicist

          “The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly.  Only when you do something is it           almost impossible to do it without mistakes.  Therefore people who are contributing nothing to           society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.”           – Thomas Sowell I           “Easier said than done.”           – Anonymous           Methodology is a very large topic (many of the details of which are field-specific) and I will again treat it in a general, foundational manner, here.  The biggest problem with methodology is that, among those specialized experts who understand particular methodologies, one may be mired down in the parochial details of one's own field, missing the ep...