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“Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.”

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Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from the tedium and fatigue of purely mechanical toil, for by this means he gains leisure for the thought necessary to working out his designs, and for the finer touches that the hand alone can give. So long as he remains master of his machinery it will serve him well, and his power of artistic expression will be freed rather than stifled by turning over to it work it is meant to do.”

“A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.”

Shows Advantage Method Structure Certainty Analysis Unexpected Chemicals Rays Surprising

Book:The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

“Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.”

People Writing Trying Ends Groups Advantage Method Sentences Collaboration Efficient Things In Life

Author:Scott Adams

“The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.”

Honest Advantage Method Honest Work

Author:Bertrand Russell

“We live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not exactly in their full magnificence, but still strong in their differentness from written stories. Each mode has its ways and methods and rules. They can reinforce each other; this is the advantage my generation has - we can bring to the written story something of that energy of the story told by word of mouth.”

Way Stills Stories Energy Strong Written Generations Mouths Advantage Method Transition My Generation Magnificence Word Of Mouth

Author:Chinua Achebe

“You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.”

Ifs Way Should Firsts I Can Secret Fire Figures Walking Conscious Advantage Method Affair Passing Admire Passings Evening Admire You

Book:Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)

Source: Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)

“The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.”

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Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

“The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.”

Source: The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.”

Mind Children Long Might Time Ignorance Advantage Claims Method Remains Faculty

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral gray matter that I believe merit immediate communication.”

“Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods.”

Feels Study Greater Information Materials Essentials Advantage Connections Method Access Range Branches Broads Instruction Isolated Formal Academia Physical Science

Author:Jacque Fresco