Method Quotes - Page 8

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 methodologies are always different but the message should be the same.

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

Each mind has its own method.

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

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

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.

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.

At all times it is better to have a method.

I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

I'm not a method actress.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

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

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

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

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Effect should come first. Method second.