August 13, 2004
The Trouble With Theory
Posted by Gordon Smith
Reading Mark de Rond's book on Strategic Alliances as Social Facts, I ran across this from Michael Crichton's Travels:
It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories. And often those expectations get in the way.
Lot of wisdom in that.
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