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“The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.”

Real Decision Findings Method Court Congress Supreme Reasoning Justification Rejected Supreme Court

Author:Arlen Specter

“The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.”

May Important Seems Pain Findings Method Therapy Injury Pseudoscience Grumpy

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?”

Ifs May Persons Matter Pain Teach Products Findings Method Average Communicate Critical Therapy Injury Average Person Pseudoscience

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.”

Source: The second American revolution: some personal observations

“Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.”

“For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.”

Problem Democracy Findings Solutions Method

Book:The Irony of American History

Source: The Irony of American History

“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

“For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.”

Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

“There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.”

Firsts Helping Easy Pieces Paper Findings Method Clean Nine Squares Scream Sheets Pencils Fourteen Fiddle Finding Someone Sharp Pencils

Author:Daniel Handler

“When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.”

Problem Science Lying Certain Findings Difficulty Mathematics Method Wings Flying Mathematical Fixed Premises Invaluable Obstruction

Author:Arthur M. Wellington

“I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Able Song Lines Prove Findings Method Make Sense Titles Songwriting

Author:Merle Haggard