“One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.” ThinkingStillsPhilosophyWrittenSubjectsAmountRelationMethodEnormousStatementsConfusionClarityContradictoryMarxist Author:John Desmond Bernal
“You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.” MenMatterForceBrainStepsKnowingTakenSeeingAmountMethodCirclesFacultyIdleChalkFruitfulnessImbecility Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.” IfsDoeHomeCertainFoundHoursSunTakenReadyReturnAmountSceneMethodFollowingFixedRisingMakersFatigueMonotonyWorking Women Author:Anna Brackett
“No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.” ProcessProductsAmountOrganizationMethodCompetitionProtectionArtificialInferiorsCompetitorsObsolete Author:Karl Taylor Compton
“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.” FirstsScienceRaceExampleAmountArgumentRelationMathematicsMethodProofStatementsParadoxAdsRunnersPursuedAchillesTortoisesDiscrete Author:Zeno of Elea
“The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.” HumansLibertyAmountMethodInstitutionsFundCivilizedTaxationGrossViolationBarbaric Author:Tibor R. Machan
“Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.” IfsTurnsAmountMethodTablesChairsUsabilitySandpaper Author:Alan Cooper
“The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.” PartyAmountMethodPledgeWaterfalls Author:Clay Shirky
“If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.” IfsWorldWayBodyCertainResultsBrainQualityCompassionMeditationAmountMethodImpactTrainPerceiveEach DayNew WaysOur ThoughtsNeuroscienceEvaluateCultivatingVerify Author:Matthieu Ricard
“I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues. If I did, I would give students the tools to take the tests but not spend an inordinate amount of time on test prep nor on 'teaching to the test.' If the students, or their parents, want drill in testing, they'd have to go elsewhere. As a professional, my most important obligation is to teach the topic, skills, and methods in ways that I feel are intellectually legitimate.” IfsWayWantGivingFeelsImportantParentMy OwnTeachVirtueTeachingStudentsAmountSkillsToolsTestsMethodObligationStakesElsewhereTopicsTestingModeratesRelievedDrillsTeaching And EducationPreps Author:Howard Gardner
“The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.” BelieveHumansUsedI BelieveAmountMurderMethodRingsHuman LifeAbortionEtcGenocidePills Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.” FirstsLittlesBookScienceChanceViewsKnowledgeKnowingLearningTheoryAmountLaborMiracleMethodBlindInstinctSorryExtremesSavedPracticalsWitnessMathematicalAccomplishmentCoveredContemptCentsImmenseInventorCalculationsDoingsProdigiousBook Learning Author:Nikola Tesla
“If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.” IfsUsePurposeEnergyInterestSunGenerationsLandAmountRiversTransformationMethodClimate ChangeDesertHeatMotiveFuelLakesControlledRaysExcessImmenseLiving OnExhaustingFertileLakes And RiversHeat Of The Sun Author:Nikola Tesla