“There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.” WayMindTwoImportantFactsOpinionTheoryFitAuthorityMethodProofDescriptionAcademicConvenienceTwo WaysScientific MethodScholastics Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.” FirstsHardWould BePainReadingEffectsStyleSeriousHard WorkReturnCriticismMethodProofTemplesExaminationHeadacheStaminaPiercingsSyphilisMigraineClose Reading Author:Louis Aragon
“A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.” FirstsLooksHugeFoolMethodProofBlockElephantsChipsMarbleSculptingFool Proof Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. But it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired by the method, some knowledge of the questions, to supply the proof than it is to find it without any previous knowledge.” FirstsSaidCertainCoursesClearEasierMethodProofInvestigationDemonstrationGeometryGreetings Author:Archimedes
“A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.” ArtPerfectionMethodDefinitionsProofDemonstrationAxiomsPersuading Book:The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“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.” ThinkingKnowsMatterJesusMoralTeachingIntellectualMethodExtremesProofWitnessMoral Courage Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.” FirstsScienceRaceExampleAmountArgumentRelationMathematicsMethodProofStatementsParadoxAdsRunnersPursuedAchillesTortoisesDiscrete Author:Zeno of Elea
“The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.” MenMeanWholeConceptsMethodDepthProofEthicalMaximsDemoralization Book:My Disillusionment in Russia Source: My Disillusionment in Russia
“A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.” ThinkingFirstsLooksFeetHugeFoolMouthsMethodTiredProofBlockConclusionElephantsChipsMarbleSculptingFool Proof Author:David Gries
“If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.” IfsWantBelieveConsciousnessMeditationPerceptionMethodProofPointlessKrishna Author:George Harrison
“Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he imparted the latter to his advanced pupils, to be put by them to experimental proof; he thus brought his pupils gradually to think for themselves, besides showing and explaining to them the methods by which chemical problems might be solved experimentally.” ThinkingIdeasProblemMightScienceRichTeacherDegreesOrdinaryMethodProofExperimentsProductiveLatterChemicalsUnusualExplainingPupils Author:Hermann Kolbe
“Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.” BelieveForceEffortEnemyExampleMathematicsMethodErrorsSimplicityMathProofContraryRigorRigourMathematical Proof Author:David Hilbert
“If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.” IfsWayWantBelieveMayPlayNextSoundConsciousnessMeditationPerceptionMethodProofPointlessKrishna Author:George Harrison