“In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical art, but [...] they also store the mind with independent geometrical and physical knowledge. Besides, it should be considered, that the only effectual method of impressing abstract formulae and rules upon the memory, and, indeed, of making them fully and clearly apprehended by the understanding, is by examples of their practical application.” ShouldMindArtUnderstandingMemoriesPracticeEffectsExampleIndependentMethodStoresPracticalsAbstractApplicationImpressConfinedIllustration Author:Dionysius Lardner
“The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.” FatherCausesExampleMethodPsychiatryPsychiatrist Author:Karl Kraus
“If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.” IfsLostSidesCompassionPracticeSpecialExampleMethodViolentDestroyedBuddhistResortsDetachmentLove And CompassionMonasteries Author:Dalai Lama
“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
“Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or technical, is likely to be far more accurate. For example, if a chartist interprets a particular pattern as a top formation, but the market is only up 10% from the last low, the odds are high that the projection will be incorrect. However, if the market is up 25% to 30%, then the same type of formation should be given a great deal more weight.” IfsShouldUseAgeLastsMovingGivenDealsExampleParticularTypeLowsWeightMethodFundamentalsHistoricalPatternsAccurateOddsProjectionExceedFormationMedian Author:Victor Sperandeo
“The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.” MenWorldGivingTwoStatesTodayPoliticalLyingOrderNationsUnitedPartyLeaderUnited StatesExampleProductsDecidedRelationMethodAdvertisingTelling The TruthPolitical PartiesCreepsWorld TodayPublic Relations Author:Richard P. Feynman
“For [Sigmund ] Freud, the manifest dream, that is that which we remember after waking,is like a code message, that can be interpreted, provided the right key is avail-able, for example the method of free association.” DreamAbleRememberExampleKeysMessagesMethodCodeManifestWakingAssociation Author:Erich Fromm
“I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion.” PeopleGivingHas BeensBigsWould BeScienceWishResultsNumbersStudyExampleIllusionFunctionPrejudiceMethodComplexesExperimentsPsychologicalObservationMediocrePublishAmerican Author Author:Alfred Binet
“The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.” Has BeensMightSuccessScienceDesireUnderstandingNatureResultsTechnologyClearCuttingExampleProductsResearchMethodImpactPropertyInvestmentCuriositySakeMedicalPracticalsEnormousUnexpectedMotivatedApplicationWorthwhileUnpredictableSpeculationRelevanceEsotericBasic Research Author:Cesar Milstein
“This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of applied science would doubtless have led to improvement and development of the older methods - the research in pure science has given us an entirely new and much more powerful method. In fact, research in applied science leads to reforms, research in pure science leads to revolutions, and revolutions, whether political or industrial, are exceedingly profitable things if you are on the winning side.” IfsMayFactsSciencePoliticalWinningGivenSidesDifferencesLinesPowerfulEffectsExampleRevolutionDevelopmentPureResearchMethodImprovementReformProfitableApplied Science Author:Joseph John Thomson
“Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.” ThinkingGivingMindBelieveEndsReasonChallengesResultsPracticeExampleArgumentUniversalPhilosophicalOriginalsMethod Book:Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994 Source: Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994
“Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.” WritingMadeUseRealityFormClassTakenExampleExpressionOffersMethodFactoriesRealistLiterary Works Book:Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
“Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.” BelieveForceEffortEnemyExampleMathematicsMethodErrorsSimplicityMathProofContraryRigorRigourMathematical Proof Author:David Hilbert
“Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.” ShouldCoursesTeachExampleDesignDevelopmentMethodProgrammingConstructionSelected Author:Niklaus Wirth
“The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings” WellsPrinciplesEffectsExampleFieldsNormalMethodVicesHorribleCrueltyLogicalCoveredJustificationVeilsGrossSystematicDegeneratesPhilosophicDebauchery Author:Iwan Bloch