Method Quotations | Page 6

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.

The long and short of it is fines are a method of obtaining compliance with the law, so our goal is to get this district to take care of its sewage.

The light was getting bad for quite some time and fortunately we were ahead of D/L Method when they (umpires) finally called off the match.

Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

Problems breed problems, and the lack of a disciplined method of openly attacking them breeds more problems.

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.

'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes.

It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.

Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare.

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.

The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It is simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.

Though this be madness, yet there is method

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

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.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

We face a hostile ideology (communism): global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money

Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.

Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny...

Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

Method will teach you to win time.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.

The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

Every man is a new method.

Each mind has its own method.

Science finds it methods.

You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going.

Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.