Quotes on Method

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

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.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.

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.

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

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method