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Author:Laurence J. Peter

“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.”

May Truth Science Desire Technology One Thing Logic Intelligent Method Witty Sincere

Author:Charles Pierce

“If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.”

Ifs Should Records Crime Policy Resources Method Notes Track Prevention Track Record

Author:Steven Pinker

“Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.”

World Fields Method Boundaries Professors Academic Organize Topics Pedagogy Subculture

Author:Steven Pinker

“Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.”

Thinking Knows Science Knowledge Seeing Ought Method Traditional Testing Hindsight Scientific Method You Think You Know Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.”

Humor Funny Method Oneself Tigers Infallible Infallibility

Author:Konrad Adenauer

“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”

“The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.”

World War Christian Military Method Nuclear Innocent War Of The Worlds Islamic Bombs Target World War Ii Civilians Hiroshima Dresden Nuclear Bomb Waging War

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“I have no methods. All I do is accept people as they are.”

People Accepting Method Approval

Author:Joan Rivers

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”

Want War Ends Government Peace Differences Harmony Method Settling Anti War Brutal Inhuman Peace And Harmony Peace Harmony Warlords Settling In

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.”

Ifs May Effort Education Groups Students Method Destructive Cult Involvement Preventing Recruitment

Author:Rick Ross

“People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.”

People Knows Done Use Young Actors House One Thing Method Vulnerable Shields Spontaneity Young Actors

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.”

Ifs Said Matter Used Compassion Practice Meditation No Matter What Method Technique Woven Meditation Practice Implied Lovingkindness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”

Life Inspirational Humans Soul Helping Religion Peace Destiny Serious Method Myth Human Soul Propose Enabling

Book:Persons and Places: My host the world

Source: Persons and Places: My host the world

“The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.”

Use Literature Language Originals Method Ancient Misunderstood

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.”

Ends Political Certain Decision Democracy Type Method Incapable Arrangements Arriving Administrative

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.”

Ifs World Should Stills Fall Fiction Style Morality Method Victim Critics Insight Suspects Imperfect Favour Assured Mistrust Scribes

Author:Will Self

“Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.”

Political Politics Battle Method Tongue Teeth Yield Knots

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.”

Belief Method Inquiry Open Minded Belief Systems

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

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

Science Method Patterns Recognition

Book:Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye

Source: Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye

“There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.”

Children Worst Method Driving Your Children Introducing

Author:Jane Smiley

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

War Lying Politics Peace Principles Violence Method Tyranny Anti War Antiwar

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Men War Lying Peace Principles Violence Method Psychopath

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.”

Looks Real Action Choices Audience Cutting Method Subtle Tracking

Author:Steven Spielberg

“The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.”

“Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.”

Mines Depends Tradition Method Originality Break Up Breaking Promises Theatre Acting

Author:Constantin Stanislavski

“Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.”

Firsts Play Differences Acting Comedy Drama Method Genre First Love

Author:Emma Stone

“Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.”

People Years Kind Past Common Economy Car Demand Taxes Behavior Standards Raises Method Oil Thirty Fuel Gas Reducing Thirty Years Over The Past Gasoline Fuel Economy

Author:James Surowiecki

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

Action Knowledge Experience Method Experiments

Book:The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.”

Way Writing Different Used Song Records Type Creating Picks Tools Method Instruments Guitar Best Way Piano Acoustics Electronics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Serj Tankian

“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”

Men Humans Mean Character Problem Certain Education Four Materials Behavior Concerned Aim Method Intellect Topics

Author:Edward Thorndike

“There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.”

Impossible Car Type Limits Method Train Democratic Speed Accidents Application Passengers Brake

Author:Leon Trotsky

“The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.”

Ends Tools Method Insight Operations Barriers March Epic Breach

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.”

Humans Community Research Method Significant Cells Destroying Stem Exploring Stride Stem Cell Embryos Stem Cell Research

Author:John Boehner

“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.”

Used Liberty Method Criminals Illegal Convicts

Author:Earl Warren

“I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.”

People Writing Trying Different Method Different Peoples

Author:Paul Weller

“The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”

Life Political Understanding Nice Conditions Inspire Method Instruments Insight Subtle Interpretation Political Science

Book:The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)

Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)

“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.”

Giving Made Bigs Given Mistake Education Study Method Branches

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”

War Helping Peace Findings Creating Method Following New Words Finding The One

Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”

Ifs Knows Want Change Knowledge Learning Military Theory Revolution Taste Eating Direct Method Genuine Pears Knowledge And Experience Knowledge Experience Chinese Revolution

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.”

Reason Philosophy Acceptance Authority Argument Method Blind Blind Acceptance

Author:Julian Baggini

“During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.”

School Technology Century Building Method Construction Establishment Engineering Rapids Manufacturing Nineteenth Century Correctness Emergence Precedent Proliferation Practicality Adherence Niceties

Author:Martin Filler

“Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.”

Ifs Knows Made Imagination Natural Know How Building Materials Products Involved Elements Method Architecture Traditional Architect Conventional Components Avant Garde Natural Elements

Author:Martin Filler

“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.”

Plans Industry Method Planning Vitality Vigor Audacity Enterprising

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.”

Thinking Needs Play Numbers Cases Impossible Failing Method Complexes Weather Factors Predictions Scientific Method

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.”

Knows Method Observation Trifles Holmes Deductions

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.”

Men May Madness Method Mad Methodical

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

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