Method Quotes - Page 3

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

  Joshua Lederberg

  Powerful, Cells, Analysis

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• Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Yield, Political, Battle

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 30

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• There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Actors, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Goal, Progress

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• An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Educational, Training

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• One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

  Roald Hoffmann

  One Day, Molecules, Rotation

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• My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

  John Astin

  Dad, Math, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

  Frederik Pohl

  Thinking, Doe, Scientific Method

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• In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

  Corin Nemec

  People, Acting, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Learning, Men

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.135

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• Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Practice, People, Design

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Success, Moving, Character

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• Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

  Harry Houdini

  Alcohol, Burning, Cotton

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Kidding Yourself

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• Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  1974 Zen and theArt of MotorcycleMaintenance, pt.3, ch.24.

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• We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Education, Mistake, Giving

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  "János: The Story of a Doctor". Book by János Plesch, 1947.

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• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Trouble, Public Speaking

  "Answers to Nine Questions". Interview with Clarence Rook, 1895.

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• Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

  Alexis Carrel

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Science

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• The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Class, Supposing That

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• Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Science, Scientific Method, Scientist

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• If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

  Clifford D. Simak

  Technology, Civilization, Path

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Heritage of Stars”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

  Herbert Read

  Umpires, Arbitration, Doe

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Feelings, Scientific Method

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• The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Order, Style, Outcomes

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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