Method Quotes - Page 31

• The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Invention, Century, Nineteenth Century

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 6 (1925)

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• Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that where answers and methods are clear cut, absolutely. I would like to see that done online.

  David Gelernter

  Cutting, Exercise, Engineering

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Tools, Use, Activity

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

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• Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.

  Antoni Tapies

  Artist, Roots, White

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 38), 2004.

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• Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Technique, Abstract Painting

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• This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly fascinating exercises have made it appear to the lay Christian that no one untrained in their methods can really understand anything the Bible says. We are in a situation analogous to one about which the great Reformers complained. The Bible has been taken out of the hands of the layperson; it has now become the professional property not of the priesthood but of the scholars.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Christian, Taken, Exercise

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• People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.

  Brother Lawrence

  People, Finesse, Knowing God

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• We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.

  David Cooperrider

  Organization, Systems Change, Inquiry

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• Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.

  Louise Fresco

  Becoming Better, Clean, Biodiversity

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• Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

  Paul Samuelson

  Analysis, Development, May

  "Report of the evaluative committee for Econometrica". Paper by Paul Samuelson, Tjalling Koopmans, and Richard Stone. Econometrica - journal of the Econometric Society, pp. 141-146, 1954.

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• There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Moving, Two, Way

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 22, 1799.

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• Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Law, Data

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 279, 1989.

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• Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Guilt, Principles

  "Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 20, 1961.

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• There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mother, Baby, Blood

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Adventure, Arriving

  "Religion and Science". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. I: Ground of Conflict, 1935.

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• Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Running, Benefits, Deeds

  "Rebirth and destiny of Israel". Book by David Ben-Gurion, 1954.

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• In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

  Brander Matthews

  Artist, Men, May

  Brander Matthews (1919). “The principles of playmaking: and other discussions of the drama”

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• Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Gold, Investing

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• I was born with the wrong sign
  In the wrong house
  With the wrong ascendancy
  I took the wrong road
  That led to
  The wrong tendencies
  I was in the wrong place
  At the wrong time
  For the wrong reason
  And the wrong rhyme
  On the wrong day
  Of the wrong week
  Used the wrong method
  With the wrong technique
  Wrong
  Wrong.

  Martin Gore

  House, Technique, Week

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• My method is to find a word with a gesture.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Gestures

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• Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Self, Influence

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

  Hippocrates

  Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures, Disease, Restriction

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.699

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• What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.

  Norbert Wiener

  Powerful, School, Grieving

  Norbert Wiener (1954). “The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society”

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• Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

  George F. Kennan

  Strong, Military, War

  "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq". historynewsnetwork.org. August 08, 2005.

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• An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.

  Alain de Botton

  Teacher, Writing, Careers

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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