The Principle of Quantitative Science

"Method consists entirely in the order and disposition of the objects towards which our mental vision must be directed, if we would find out any truth. We shall comply with it exactly if we reduce involved and obscure propositions step by step to those that are simpler," he writes. "In this alone lies the sum of all human endeavor and he who would approach the investigation of truth must hold to this rule as closely as he who enters the labyrinth must follow the thread which guided Theseus."