“How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.” WritingHumansPiecesMethodAffairVicesObscuritySubtletyDegeneratesScientific MethodMeaninglessnessUnqualifiedUnderstatement Author:Eric Hoffer
“The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.” BitsPiecesBuddhismMethodSacredPocketsMatureFollowersHinduismPatheticDerrida Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“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
“I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.” WritingKindCharacterCertainActorsBrainPiecesPicksPercentMethodSubconscious Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.” PeopleTryingDoeSongPiecesMethodLuxuryPlotUsualBalletMotion Pictures Author:Gene Kelly
“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.” FirstsHelpingEasyPiecesPaperFindingsMethodCleanNineSquaresScreamSheetsPencilsFourteenFiddleFinding SomeoneSharp Pencils Author:Daniel Handler
“During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.” IfsTryingKindIdeasAgeReligionCoursesPiecesAtheismCrazyMiddleIncreaseMethodAll KindsOrganizedMiddle AgesHornsSeparatingPotencyCrazy IdeasRhinoceros Book:Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Source: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
“There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.” ThinkingMindIdeasSeemsTogetherFormScienceTeachPiecesWonderfulDegreesHighestIntellectualResearchMethodSeriesAriseDryVisibleDiscourseStrainElegantBarrenChemistClearness Author:Justus von Liebig
“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.” BelieveMatterFactsFoundI BelieveBlackBrainPiecesHappenedCommunicationElementsSolutionsAdvantageMethodStructureMeritSilverGrayBelieve In MeHardenedCerebralTaking AdvantageImmersionGray MatterPotassium Author:Camillo Golgi
“Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.” PiecesSceneDirectorsMethodPsychologicalCinemaGuidanceFilmmakerMovieEditingSpectatorsCinematographyJunction Author:Vsevolod Pudovkin
“My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.” ThinkingHandsRealityThreeSpaceViewsPiecesMethodCrowdsSuitsPrimitiveAbsurdityDressed UpMy SpaceChum Author:Jane Wagner