Quotes About Method

In general output arguments should be avoided. If your function must change the state of something, have it change the state of its owning object.

Structured programming is discipline imposed upon direct transfer of control.

If your function must change the state of something, have it change the state of its owning object.

Results are important, but the way they are achieved, the process, is equally important.

The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one's work so as to obtain an objective, true picture of reality.

Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive feeling, growing rapidly, that what he had stumbled on was no small gimmick. It went far beyond. How far, he didn't know.

The real purpose of scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know.

Quality isn't a substance. Neither is it a method. It's outside of both. If one builds a house using the plumb-line and spirit-level methods he does so because a straight vertical wall is less likely to collapse and thus has higher Quality than a crooked one. Quality isn't method. It's the goal toward which method is aimed.

In order to make bread, every baker follows a recipe, even if it's only held in their head.

A scientific or technical study always consists of the following three steps: 1. One decides the objective. 2. One considers the method. 3. One evaluates the method in relation to the objective.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.