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“Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.”

Firsts Art Shows Lasts Process Beauty Grace Color Sight Method Logical Curves Formation Symmetrical

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.”

Action Direct Method Consistent Logical Anarchism Direct Action

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!”

Men Made Matter Sides Business Hero Standards Method Oil Features Logical Ethical Contempt Depressing Business Success Most Depressing Standard Oil

Book:The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version

Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version

“Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the irrational belief that because we cannot perceive reality all at once, things called time and cause and effect exist. Dilbert: That's what I was taught and that's what I believe. Dogbert: Sounds cultish.”

“The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.”

Men Mind Humans Form Language Decision Destiny Illusion Logic Method Longing Certainty Logical Human Mind Repose Judicial

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)”

Firsts Dream Night Lines Vision Air Rocks Arms Hundred Method Wings Eight Surface Flying Mediums Flight Logical Swim Pipe Flew Halt Extending Sars

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.”

Humans Science Force Nature Anxiety Logic Accounts Method Operations Analysis Cosmos Logical Demonstrating Predictability Materiality

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from them. It matters not whether you have acquired any merit. Merit is merit. Karma is karma. Nonetheless, if one practices the Quan Yin Method, one can be liberated regardless of having any merit or not. It is so logical, so scientific.”

Ifs Made Matter Inspiration Spiritual Causes Break Practice Effects Method Karma Merit Logical Liberated Break Through Spiritual Practice Spiritual Inspiration

Author:Ching Hai

“Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.”

Ifs Play Winning Simple Masters Method Chess Logical Brilliance Viewpoints Playing Chess

Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.”

Thinking World Way Self Problem Individual Social Scientist Method Mythology Objectives Rational Logical Serving Stereotype Robots Biased Scientific Method Preconceptions Self Serving

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“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”

Wells Principles Effects Example Fields Normal Method Vices Horrible Cruelty Logical Covered Justification Veils Gross Systematic Degenerates Philosophic Debauchery

Author:Iwan Bloch

“By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy”

Religious Claims Method Logical Fallacy Scientific Method Logical Fallacy

Author:Francis Collins

“Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.”

Life Needs Use Order Mathematics Method Math Mathematical Logical Propositions

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus