Quotes About Method

For this reason Archimedes considered that this method merely indicated, but did not prove, that the result is correct.

Torricelli fully realized the advantages and disadvantages of the method of indivisibles; and he suspected that the ancients possessed some such method for discovering difficult theorems, the proofs of which they cast in another form either "to hide the secret of their method or to avoid giving occasion for contradiction to jealous detractors.

A thorough-going empiricist for whom mathematics was a method rather than an explanation, Newton apparently considered any attempt to question the instantaneity of motion as linked with metaphysics, and so avoided framing a definition of it.

There were other miscalculations. Bernstein should not have used the silent confirm-or-hang-up method with the Justice Department lawyer. The instructions were too complicated. (Indeed, they learned, the attorney had gotten the instructions backward and had meant to warn them off the story.) With Deep Throat, Woodward had placed too much faith in a code for confirmation, instead of accepting only a clear statement.

The Fundamentalist does not think that the ends can be reached by various means, and that his method is better; if he did, the hostility would not be as serious.

There is no rule that is true under all circumstances, for this is the real and not a statistical world. Because the statistical method shows only the average aspects, it creates an artificial and predominantly conceptual picture of reality.

The Spirit's work in the renewal of things proceeds according to a fixed, systematic method, in certain distinct stages.

every work center is made up of four things: the machine, the man, the method, and the measures.

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.

If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful.

Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.

Look heah, now, I've got the wuhks of all the old mastahs—the gweat ahchaeologists of the past. I wigh them against each othah—balance the disagweements—analyze the conflicting statements—decide which is pwobably cowwect—and come to a conclusion. That is the scientific method. At least"—patronizingly—"as I see it.

Now the Empire is stronger than we; it always has been. But this is the first time we are in danger of its direct attack, so that strength becomes terribly menacing. Then if it can be beaten, it must be once again as in all past crises by a method other than pure force. We must find the weak side of its enemy and attack it there.

Te los desordenó? —le preguntó Amanda, súbitamente interesada. —Los alineó en orden alfabético y ahora no puedo encontrar nada. Yo tengo mi propio orden.

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn't want to pass out.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.