Method Quotations | Page 5

Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it...

A problem with the former method of testing is that it caused a treeing effect, which is a void in insulation. Charges that build up within these voids using the DC input method of testing would want to dissipate to ground, thus causing a breakdown in the cable's insulation, which would ultimately cause a failure.

Annuities are a secure method of providing retirement income but that level of security comes at a really high price, particularly with current market conditions.

A sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities - is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry

SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words.His bad opponent's ""facts"" he sweeps away, And drags his sophistry to light of day; Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort To falsehood of so desperate a sort. Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast, He lies most lightly who the least is pressed. --Polydore Smith

The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting method is to extrapolate the recent past.

The dogs learned to sit or lie down in front of cancer patient samples and to ignore control samples through the method of food reward." ()

The enjoyment of the game, the glory of the game, sir. Yes, we'd like to win, but if we don't that's OK. Baseball started as a method of exercise for workers and it became competitive later.

The endangered resources check off on the Wisconsin income tax form is the primary source of funding for our work to conserve our natural resource heritage. This easy method of contributing has become the single largest source of dollars contributed to our fund, and we greatly appreciate the public?s support.

There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.

The company is still in its start-up stage and so it has better years ahead of it. This method is more suitable and will give justice to the existing shareholders.

This is one seasonal investing method that holds some water, given its robust track record. The summer months are a good time for remaining bulls to think about pulling in the reins.

This is our method for providing our expertise to the community. If someone wants to staff the station full time around the clock, we'll look at a different avenue.

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.

The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

I'm not a method actress.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.

At first, the idea of exercising at 7 a.m. on Saturday mornings can be a little hard to get used to. But after a few weeks most of our members look forward to spending time with our friends doing something we love and that we know is so important to our health. By starting early, we still have most of the day to spend with our families and with our run-walk method we still have the energy to enjoy the weekend.

It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it's intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

It's not a nice way to lose the match. We were always behind on the D/L method and after Butt and Malik put on a brilliant partnership we were left to play the catching game.

That's really fascinating. It's method acting gone wild ù a character who's not only reading lines and performing in the show but also continuing to perform outside the confines of the screen.

As a veteran player, I understand there's a method to his madness,

This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil or in any tropical forest.

This method of suffocating the chickens in polythene bags is easier and more humane than slitting their throat or strangling them.

This method will also help to protect the intellectual property rights of domestic companies.

There was no dissent because none was allowed. The entire summit was simply a method for those elected and appointed officials who were there to pat themselves on the back. They are not looking for alternatives.

They figure out several different ways to make that happen magically. Once we decide which method we'd like to go with, it's drawn, built, delivered.

They make attempts to identify serial offenders and keep them out. These types of people are not wanted at cricket matches. If there's a cost-effective method of keeping them out, we'll certainly look into it.

They might consider how much they sell or think about some other method that doesn't actually get the whole thing away.

The research shows that electronic transactions are actually a much safer method of payment than paper transactions.

We try one-to-one method based on the capability of each student.

We're going to adopt one of the two because those models have been out there for a long time, ... We're still trying to figure out the best method to do that and keep the private sector on a level playing field.

We think it is a fairer method of sharing some of the cost as opposed to a surcharge.

It's a flawed method, but if any other method were used I think it would be worse. All the way up and down the line there would be decisions and you could be debating it forever. And a team could be ranked fifth or 105th, but if they're the best team, they're going to win.

It may be presumed that he did not want someone like Mr. Cutler to obstruct or delay his method of handling sponsorship files,

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

This is why the Internet-phone industry is probably going to replace entirely what we might call loosely the analog method of phone calls over a period of years.

Colonoscopy has proven to be an effective method for preventing colorectal cancer by detecting and removing polyps that have the potential to develop into colorectal cancer as well as finding early cancers that are more effectively treated.

I don't think there is any question that Senator Clinton is trying to spread her appeal beyond New York and is using the DLC and other platforms as a method of doing that.

I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.

For the kids who are non-verbal, this allows them a method to make sound independently. It's an opportunity to creatively express themselves and socialize with other kids. The smiles on their faces say it all.

For the first time since we began tracking Internet fraud, wire transfer was the No. 1 method of payment. It's really alarming. The whole reason why scam artists try to convince people to wire money to them is because it's so hard to trace and track wire transfers.

For the first time we have now a method of how consumers will be able to buy music and experience it online.

I'm not a method actor; I hope you know that!

The business and method of mysticism is love.

But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

I wasn’t getting obliterated, but I was getting a kick. I was very method on that. That’s why I’d have gone along with it [if Tom had hit her]. But Tom was like: ‘Oh my God – I hope you don’t murder me!’

There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method.

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.

Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

There is no method except yourself.

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration...

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

Madness in method, that's genius

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

All of the ideas are simple and had peoples' minds been directed that way the method would have flourished perhaps a century earlier.

A much more effective and lasting method of facelifting than surgical technique is happy thinking, new interests and outdoor exercise.

A method that doesn't use what you know. It's just pure, raw emotion.

A more consistent and verifiable method of lie detection could lead to changes in this particular realm of the legal system down the road.

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade...

Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.