Part V: QMS Styles

Chapter List

Chapter 16: Readership and Form

Chapter 17: The Adverse Effects of Paraphrasing

Chapter 18: Publication Media

Chapter 19: Writing Style

Part Overview

In physics, the interpretation of experiments are models or theories, and the realization that all models and theories are approximate is basic to modern scientific research. Thus the aphorism of Einstein, "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." Physicists know that their methods of analysis and logical reasoning can never explain the whole realm of natural phenomenon at once, and so they single out a certain group of phenomena and try to build a model to describe this group. In doing so, they neglect other phenomena and the model will therefore not give a complete description of the real situation.

—Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics, New York: Bantam Books, 1984, p. 27.