“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.” MatterFormExistenceParticularMethodRecognitionFeaturesParticlesTransient Author:C. F. Powell
“Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.” DifferentMeditationParticularMethodStreamsNever Expect Author:Frederick Lenz
“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.” ThinkingWayTwoHandsTogetherGenerationsMagicParticularSmartMachinesMethodSomedayArtificial IntelligenceImprovingBeing SmartMaybe Someday Author:Marvin Minsky
“When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.” LooksKindProblemAnswersForgetParticularSolutionsMethodNotesDistinctionNonsensicalJuncture Author:David Bentley
“Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.” FirstsDoeProblemJobsIndividualGivenGoalPiecesParticularGratitudeMajorsSolutionsUltimateMathematicsMethodAssumingSimplicityCreditSolveAdmireEfficientMathematicianObserversEleganceUltimate GoalAccolades Author:Keith Devlin
“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.” NeedsWellsChildrenIdeasFeelingsCertainValuesWishParentUnderstandingResultsSituationProduceParticularOughtBehaviorFlowRelationOur ChildrenMethodPredictable Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?” FactsSpiritLyingNextGoalSecretBehindsRichGenerationsCenturyFieldsParticularDevelopmentMethodStriveCastsWideGladMathematicalLiftsGlancesVeils Author:David Hilbert
“Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods.” MeanUseLightDifficultLevelsTeachPlansSkyBuildingParticularTheoryMethodArchitectureFixedAcquireSquaresQuartersAssistanceCompassGeometryInvolvingReadinessSymmetryOpticsDifficult Questions Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.” IfsMindHumansProduceParticularFlowerMethodFruitSpotsSoilHuman MindWeed Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results.” WritingUseResultsPlansStudentsTaughtParticularResearchMethod Author:Patricia Leavy
“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.” IfsMenFeelsWritingBelieveWellsMayBookEndsMatterCharacterHomeLyingFictionHappenedEventsParticularReaderWalkingSceneMethodDetailsNarrativeConvincingWriting A BookRecollectionFiction Writing Author:Samuel Hynes
“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
“Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.” KindArtPlayWonderParticularGoes OnActivityArt IsMethodConclusionIngredients Author:Richard Serra
“Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.” ViolenceParticularCircumstancesMethodCommitNeverthelessJustified Author:Dalai Lama
“You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.” IfsWantShouldSaidCommunityWhiteParticularMethod Author:Malcolm X
“I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.” FilmBrainStyleParticularCircumstancesMethodTechniqueBelly Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.” FormCultureFightingStreetsParticularMethodCombatWrestlingPresentationKarateKung Fu Author:David Mamet
“History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.” HistoryParticularMethodBranches Author:Lord Acton
“The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.” ScienceAirLandParticularDiscoveryMethodRationalFlightObservationInterpretationAirplaneImaginativeAeroplanesGeneralizationThin Air Book:Process and Reality Source: Process and Reality
“There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.” MenMayImportantGovernmentPrinciplesParticularMethodLoyaltyAdministrationTemporaryLoyalPerpetualDistinctive Author:Abraham Lincoln
“The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner will ever presume to infer from it any single fact, and alter or add to the phenomena, in any single particular.” FactsUniverseReligiousAtheismParticularMethodAddVisibleHypothesisAccountingAgnosticism Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
“The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do not claim that the reproducible by itself is more important than the unique. But I do claim that the unique exceeds the treatment by scientific method. Indeed it is the aim of this method to find and test natural laws.” KindImportantLawScienceNaturalParticularUniqueConcernedTestsScientistClaimsAimMethodTreatmentExceedNatural LawScientific Method Author:Wolfgang Pauli
“The market being in a trend is the main thing that eventually gets us in a trade. That is a pretty simple idea. Being consistent and making sure you do that all the time is probably more important than the particular characteristics you use to define the trend. Whatever method you use to enter trades, the most critical thing is that if there is a major trend, your approach should assure that you get in that trend.” IfsShouldImportantIdeasUseSimpleParticularApproachMajorsMethodTradeCriticalCharacteristicsConsistentTrendsSimple Ideas Author:Richard Dennis
“I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.” ThinkingGivingDifferentPlayNextIndividualBehindsFocusMinesParticularMethodSuitsNext Day Author:Sean Bean
“These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge. The algorithmic assessment of information, then, represents a particular knowledge logic, one built on specific presumptions about what knowledge is and how one should identify its most relevant components. That we are now turning to algorithms to identify what we need to know is as momentous as having relied on credentialed experts, the scientific method, common sense, or the word of God.” KnowsNeedsShouldCommonInformationParticularBuiltLogicMethodCommon SenseMathematicalExpertsWord Of GodRelevantComponentsProceduresRelevanceAssessmentPresumptionScientific MethodAlgorithms Author:Tarleton Gillespie
“The work is primarily subject-driven. All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in particular context, at a specific moment in time. The thoughtful preparedness that defines my working method actually facilitates spontaneity and allows me to embrace surprise. I always have a game plan but view it as merely the jumping off point.” MadeMomentsGamesDecisionViewsPlansSubjectsParticularUniqueFlowMethodEmbraceSurpriseResponsePhotographDrivenThoughtfulJumpingSpontaneityMoments In TimeFacilitatePreparednessGame PlanJumping Off Author:Gregory Heisler
“A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.” MomentsFactsHelpingCultureGivenSocialDangerParticularTheoryPerspectiveDevelopmentMethodHistoricalRelativeExistentialMoments In TimeSocial ScienceHistorical Perspective Author:Rollo May
“Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.” MadeFactsBitsPrinciplesParticularMethodAgingDrs Author:James Webb Young