Quotes About Method

Method is not (as we often think) subservient to goal but rather contains the goal within itself.

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

Kristin realized that trying to decide when it was "safe" was no longer a reasonable method of birth control.

An unfortunate medical dispute erupted between the "Republican" method of Rush and the "Federalist" alternative of Stevens. Rush was not averse to casting the controversy in political terms.

Yet Rockefeller didn't apply this pressure lightly and preferred patience and reason—if possible—to terror.

Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute to the power of the scientific method and the creativity and persistence of humans who want to understand it.

After a farcical trial for treason Clarence was executed in the Tower. The hard-drinking king may have thought the method a kindly one – he had Clarence drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine.5

Pearson invented a method, called the chi-square test, by which you can determine whether a set of data actually conforms to the distribution you believe it conforms to.

In accordance with the method of "German socialism," the facade of a market economy was retained. All prices, wages, and interest rates, however, were "fixed by the central authority. They [were] prices, wages, and interest rates in appearance only; in reality they [were] merely determinations of quantity relations in the government's orders.... This is socialism in the outward guise of capitalism.

Since DIM categories are epistemological, their applicability to a given individual is determined not by his mind's content, but by its method—not by what he thinks, but by why he thinks it.

So the first issue of a proper method is always set the proper context. What are you counting on? What do you already know by the time you get to this point? What are you taking for granted that enables you to study this particular topic?

What many bakers don't realise is that good wheat can make bad bread. The magic of bread baking is in the manipulation and the fermentation. What has been lost....is this method.

Or again, exegesis of The Waste Land often reads remarkably like the psychoanalytic interpretation of a dream, yet we know that Eliot's methods were prepared for him not by Freud but by other poets.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

I admire the elegance of his calculation method; it must be great to ride those fields on the horse of genuine mathematics while we have to do our hard work on foot

What's your next step, my friend? If you know, tell me quickly so that I may adopt your method with all speed.

Order is the key to all problems.

to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.

Los beneficios Como hemos aprendido, el beneficio más importante de este pequeño plan es que nos da dirección y empuje. Sin importar cuán cansado, soñoliento o distraído estés al momento de orar, con este método sabrás cuáles cinco salmos debes considerar en cualquier día.

In "The Book of the Grotesque," the opening chapter of Winesburg, Ohio, Anderson explains his method through one of the parable-like stories that the book employs: an old man begins to write by picturing truths and the people who live by them. The truths themselves were beautiful, but "the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque, and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense. . . . —Sir Hermann Bondi, mathematician and cosmologist3

Anti-Semites (American Jews included) pressure Israel to correct its ego and show the whole world their method of correction.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.