Because a significant body of practitioner opinion came gradually to embrace at least some of the conclusions of financial economics, it is tempting to tell the latter's story within the familiar frame of scientific "discovery," practitioner resistance, and then eventual acceptance. Such a framing, however, would fail to capture the historical process involved in several respects. Most importantly, it would be misleading to present the development of financial economics as simply the discovery of what was out there all along, waiting to be discovered.

Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, loc. 386