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There are many ways in which a research project can begin. It may be that a conversation with a colleague suggested interesting questions to pursue, or that your general interest in a topic was crystallized into a specific investigation by something learnt in a seminar, or that enrollment in a research degree forced you to identify a problem to work on. Then definite aims are stated; theories are developed or experiments are undertaken; and the outcomes are written up.
Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.
Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World
There are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.
Percy W. Bridgman
On “Scientific Method”
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Even after taking this axiom into account.
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Zobel, J. (2014). Getting Started. In: Writing for Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6639-9_2
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