Quotes About Method

They're specialists, the whole lot of them, and they don't believe in a method of work which cuts into every field of science from botany to archaeology. They limit their own scope in order to be able to dig in the depths with more concentration for details. Modern research demands that every special branch shall dig in its own hole. It's not usual for anyone to sort out what comes up out of the holes and try to put it all together.

A myth, you ought to know, is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing, and condensing historical events and psychological states that are otherwise too complicated to be digested or appreciated by the prevailing society.

Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.

In other words, science is a method that chiefly expands our ignorance rather than our knowledge.

Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once we invented the scientific method, we could immediately create thousands of other amazing things we could have never discovered any other way.

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A proper scholarly method is intrinsically antifascist, in that it treats sceptically what fascists regard as beyond criticism.

But he insisted his reasons for supplying to governments went deeper than money: "We mainly work with governments who are facing national security issues … we help them in protecting their democracies and protecting lives.… It's like any surveillance method. The government needs to know if something bad is being prepared and to know what people are doing, to protect national security. So

We follow protocol in our entire lives, nothing doesn't follow protocol

obsession with method is one of the baleful aspects of modern literary theory, and it has not served society well in promoting the reading or writing of literature. Nevertheless,

A few modern philosophers…assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism….With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before. Who

There are apparently two types of successful soldiers. Those who get on by being unobtrusive and those who get on by being obtrusive. I am of the latter type and seem to be rare and unpopular: but it is my method. One has to choose a system and stick to it; people who are not themselves are nobody.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.

But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.

For if we could be allowed to see the Plague as a thing in Nature merely, we did not have to trouble about some grand celestial design that had to be completed before the disease would abate. We could simply work upon it as a farmer might toil to rid his field of unwanted tare, knowing that when we found the tools and the method and the resolve, we would free ourselves, no matter if we were a village full of sinners or a host of saints.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.

The strange thing about Christianity was that it adopted an entirely different method. It transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story; not by exhortation, but by the narration of an event.

The outcome was moral even if the method was not. And sometimes that was the best you could do.