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Quotes About Methods

the Prospectus judges it "quite likely" that methods would be found to extract uranium from lower-grade ores. It mentions thorium as an alternative and much more abundant reactor fuel. (It still is, having not yet been used commercially as reactor fuel.)
~ Richard Rhodes
The Church is looking for better methods
~ God is looking for better men.
As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
~ Victor Hugo
We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.
~ William Osler
Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
~ x malcolm v
We each need to find out our own personal methods of cultivating happiness,
~ David Michie
Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.
~ Jean Edward Smith
where he talked with railroad staff about their methods of scheduling arrivals and departures until Edison finally was ready to return to San Francisco on the 5:42 p.m. train.
~ Jeff Guinn
It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.
~ Sean MacBride
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
~ Pat Brown
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really. And I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
~ Paul Weller
Philosophy ought to imitate the successful sciences in its methods, so far as to proceed only from tangible premises which can be subjected to careful scrutiny, and to trust rather to the multitude and variety of its arguments than to the conclusiveness to any one. Its reasoning should not form a chain which is no stronger than its weakest link, but a cable whose fibres may be ever so slender, provided they are sufficiently numerous and intimately connected. (Peirce 1992, p. 29)
~ Richard J. Bernstein
Todo parece nuevo si uno ignora la historia. Muchos de los métodos que marchan bajo el estandarte del "cambio" han sido utilizados en el pasado ligeramente modificados.
~ Rick Warren
And, on a bad day, the methods and motives of the source will be challenged
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
You read in every textbook that cliché: Power corrupts. In my opinion, I've learned that power does not always corrupt. Power can cleanse. When you're climbing to get power, you have to use whatever methods are necessary, and you have to conceal your aims. Because if people knew your aims, it might make them not want to give you power.
~ Robert Caro
When a person asks how he can improve his memory, he cannot expect a useful answer until he makes his question more specific. What kind of material does he want to remember? In what way? [How will his memory be measured?] Under what circumstances? For how long? There are methods and principles in this book that apply to almost any kind of learning situation, but none applies to all situations
~ Kenneth L. Higbee
Of course, the methods for human population control are enormously controversial. One contraceptive measure seems to be humane and acceptable: If you teach calculus to teenage girls, they go on to have far fewer babies. Calculus is the contraceptive of the future. It doesn't work for boys.
~ Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Over the years we saw what worked and refined our methods. Violence didn't work. Numbers did. That's the secret, in case you are looking for the secret to resisting an imperial power, which was what we were doing through those years. Non-violent resistance of the total population, or as much of it as you can get. That's what works.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
the way like-minded people working to solve the same problem will engage in continuous civil war with each other over methods, thus destroying their chances of success.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.
~ Michael Shermer
If pupils suffer from attention disorders, stress and low grades, perhaps we ought to blame outdated teaching methods, overcrowded classrooms and an unnaturally fast tempo of life.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.
~ zedong mao ii
No, Eichmann assured him, there was no specific talk of killing methods. -- The Eichmann Trial, page 137
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt