Best method & matter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.”

Matter Form Existence Particular Method Recognition Features Particles Transient

Author:C. F. Powell

“Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”

Way Want Doe Ideas Different Matter Progress Expression Evolution Method Following Theme

Author:Pablo Picasso

“There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.”

“We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'”

Knows Stills Matter Progress Evolution Claims Method Prophet Spite Biology Quarters Mechanic Jumping Up And Down Paleontology Over Confident

Author:Errol White

“My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.”

Source: The Meditations: Translated from the Greek

“I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.”

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Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner. It is incessantly being revolutionized from within by new enterprise, i.e., by the intrusion of new commodities or new methods of production or new commercial opportunities into the industrial structure as it exists at any moment.”

Matter Moments Facts Opportunity Economy Method Structure Productions Enterprise Steady Capitalist Commodity Expanding Matter Of Fact Incessantly Intrusion Stationary Capitalist Economy

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's essential to continually experiment with different subject matter, types of paint and methods of painting.”

Thinking Art Different Matter Artist Subjects Painting Type Essentials Training Method Paint Experiments Formal Subject Matter Art History Different Subjects

Author:Ron Parker

“Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.”

Matter Artist Pay Painting Method Paint Profession What Matters

Author:Jim Rowe

“The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.”

Long Matter Use Compassion Practice Meditation Method Technique Buddhist Buddhist Meditation

Author:Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.”

Matter Reason Reality Form Method Deny Investigation Metaphysics Finality Brackets

Author:David Bentley

“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

“There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.”

Matter Teacher Buddhism Method Rama Best Teacher

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.”

Men Giving Matter Opportunity Thousand Ten Method Improvement Silly Variety Absurdity Good Sense Insufferable Pedants Pedantry Impertinence Silly Man

Book:Addison's Essays

Source: Addison's Essays

“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.”

Men Matter Force Brain Steps Knowing Taken Seeing Amount Method Circles Faculty Idle Chalk Fruitfulness Imbecility

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

“The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the changes are arrived at, seems to me the most important duty in the whole field of management.”

Important Matter Whole Seems Work Fields Duty Management Method Workers Productions Consulting

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“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

“We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote anything down. It doesn't matter to me whether he did or not exist because we have his teachings, his method of thinking, and his extreme intellectual and moral courage.”

Thinking Knows Matter Jesus Moral Teaching Intellectual Method Extremes Proof Witness Moral Courage

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.”

Humans Matter Culture Education Practice Universal No Matter What Method Structure Human Experience Curriculum

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.”

Stills Matter Problem Ability Practice Students Habit Concerned Method Silent Oneself Instruction Session Scholarship Discussing Attending Imports Scholarly Memorizing

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.”

“Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single continuous interaction of a great diversity (literally countless in number) of energies.”

World Mind Matter Energy Numbers Subjects Objects Diversity Method Combination Interaction Subject Matter Great Diversity

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. ... Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.”

May Matter Reason Facts Lying Certain Principles Essence Regard Method Intellect Conclusion Consideration Application Creeds Positively Agnosticism

Book:Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley

Source: Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley

“Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our arm-chairs of an afternoon-the most favoured alternative method.”

“By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with its emotional spirit.”

Matter Spirit Purpose Individual Share Subjects Emotional Needed Activity Skills Method Familiar Acquire Subject Matter Saturated

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.”

People Ifs Way Matter Used Cases Music Is No Matter What Method If I Could

Author:Kim Nam-joon

“Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try it, they should be allowed to go at it without supervision or restriction -in their parents' bedroom, on the grass in a park, in a motel; it doesn't matter, as long as the setting is private and pleasant. If we did all this, our kids would grow up into happier, healthier human beings. But we won't, of course. It would make too much sense.”

“I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.”

Ifs Said Matter Used Compassion Practice Meditation No Matter What Method Technique Woven Meditation Practice Implied Lovingkindness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.”

Source: The Heart of a Dog

“I want to create no matter what methods I have to use. And you want to steal no matter what methods you have to use. Given that which of us is the greater sinner?”

Want Matter Use Given Greater No Matter What Method Stealing Sinner

Author:Yukiru Sugisaki

“Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.”

Source: The Complete Christian Mystic: A Practical, Step - By - Step Guide for Awakening to the Presence of God

“Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.”

Mind Matter Problem Body Names Lost Solitude Empty Method Usual Floating Without You Detached Flavour

Book:Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

“...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.”

Real Matter Whole Choices Evil Sin Healing Environment Modern Crime Disease Method Prison Active Hospitals Objections Fallacy Scientific Method

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?”

Doe Matter Method Cheating

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.”

“I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.”

“Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.”

Wells Self Matter Facts Running Science Causes Trouble Mankind Method Assured Matter Of Fact

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means of methods which should be adapted to the circumstances.”

World Should Mean Matter Science Circumstances Research Universal Method Recipes Adapted Outer Worlds

Author:Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“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

“The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.”

Feels Writing Matter Reading Language Education Teaching Subjects Students Materials Percent Method Cooperative Learning

Author:Noam Chomsky

“As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.”

Knows Matter Interest Natural Teacher Teaching Students Materials Importance Method Curiosity Range Covered Instruction Exploring Good Teacher Natural Curiosity

Book:Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures

Source: Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures

“Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.”

Mind Matter Courses Individual Study Teacher Teaching Subjects Method Etc Quarters Subject Matter Pupils Textbooks Supervisors Dictation

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”

Knows Firsts Kind May Matter Numbers Quality Steps Principles Subjects Stage Essentials Method Connected Measurement Measuring Reckoning Physical Science Measure For Measure Flying Machines

Author:Lord Kelvin

“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.”

“Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is”

Real Matter Deals Subjects Anxiety Method Anthropology Subject Matter

Author:Clifford Geertz

“To face tomorrow with the thought of using the methods of yesterday is to envision life at a standstill. To keep ahead, each one of us, no matter what our task, must search for new and better methods-for even that which we now do well must be done better tomorrow.”

Wells Matter Done Faces Tomorrow Tasks No Matter What Method Improvement Yesterday Better Tomorrow Standstill

Author:James F. Bell, III

“Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”

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