The hammer and the nail: v2

Submitted by sarraf on November 2, 2012 - 11:55am

I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
~ Abraham Kaplan, 1964, The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science

 

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