“Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.” MindReligionJesusLeftSecretChristianityToo MuchSweetBalanceMethodIntuitionCatholicismGreat PowerLeft OutProtestantismReasonableness Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible
“The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.” JusticeSubjectsBalanceCriticismPraiseMethodCriticsDiscriminationCensure Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.” RunningAbleMovingStrongGoalNaturalWalksQualityBalanceMethodFinalsSpeedResistanceLiftsClimbsSwimFoursPhysical Education Author:Georges Hebert
“Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.” EndsRocksBalanceWeightMethodBalancedHogWeighingSymmetrical Author:Robert Burns
“I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.” KnowsNeedsDifferentHandsJobsSongKnowingBalanceMethodTechniqueCraftsSongwritersCraftsman Author:Brett Dennen
“If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.” PeopleIfsTryingInterestActingLibertyWillingBalanceModelsTraditionMethodWesternContraryAlternativesExtrasWestern Society Author:Edward Snowden
“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. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject " — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.” GivingMindHumansMayPurposeViewsMistakeMoralSubjectsHumilityPerspectiveBalanceNormalMethodPoint Of ViewPhysicsNarrativeEngagedBiologyHuman MindChemistryImperativesScientific MethodHuxley Author:Neil Postman