“Francis Bacon had this notion about how to find objective truth. Today, we call it the scientific method. Bacon dubbed it, “progressive stages of certainty”, which I think absolutely nails the point. He figured that each idea has to be solid before you can move forward, and each idea has to fit in place when it’s all said and done. Anything that doesn’t work gets tossed out the window, no matter how much you liked the thought and no matter how much you want to stomp your feet about it. That sounds as much about design as any scientific reasoning.”