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“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

“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.”

“But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.”

People Knows Years Wells Persons Has Beens Stills Might Three Numbers Millions Support Greater Benefits Argument Method Good People Murderer Lingering Cannibalism

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.”

Humans Stills Important Facts Use Human Beings Situation Progress Possibility Habit Method Acquire Continuing

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.”

Trying Stills Class Conversation Method Criminals Foolish Improving Philanthropist

Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.”

Thinking Stills Philosophy Written Subjects Amount Relation Method Enormous Statements Confusion Clarity Contradictory Marxist

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.”

Mind Stills Two Water Masters Becoming Method Flames Pool Still Waters Becoming God

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.”

Way Made Stills War Use Today Past Fighting Difficult Common Sea Method Common Sense Ships Permanent Navy Infrastructure Sea Power

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.”

“For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.”

Looks Heart Stills Soul Character Film Actors Games Performances Method Fantastic Heart And Soul Portraying

Author:Andy Serkis

“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.”

People Men Stills Process Democracy He Man Higher Cost Prejudice Method Blame Investing Acquire Spite Grades Cost Of Living

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”

Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition

“Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick.”

People Stills Sick Method Ignorant Deceit Rejects Conventional Items Medieval Implications Grotesque Tainted

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really.”

People Thinking Knows Way Stills I Can Shows Jobs Courses Acting Lucky Method Hungry My Way Do The Best Pioneers Respect People Cheques Method Acting Points In Life Stanislavski

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“There are no rules or certain methods. I usually start with the guitar or piano and sing melodies over the chords. The lyrics seem to be born out of that, and the fact that it's still a mystery to me is my favorite part.”

Stills Facts Seems Certain Born Mystery Method Guitar My Favorite Piano Melody Chords

Author:Jason Reeves

“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

“Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)”

Needs Stills Use Moving Essentials Photography Training Method Photographer Dependent Sophisticated Requirements Anthropology Anthropologists

Author:Margaret Mead

“The greatest inspiration I draw upon is, is this city (New York) and riding the subway and watching people and I find that's kind of like the best, the best acting teacher. You know, I wonder, like people who have huge celebrity, sometimes I feel bad, should this be one of their methods 'cause I don't know how they can observe life anymore, because they become the observed. So, I, I appreciate that New York can still do that.”

People Knows Feels Should Kind Stills Sometimes Inspiration Causes Acting Cities Wonder Know How Teacher New York Huge Draws Appreciate Method Riding Subway Best Acting Acting Teachers

Author:Amy Ryan

“It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.”

Stills Important Whole Jobs Stars Records One Thing Capacity Method

Author:Macy Gray

“We live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not exactly in their full magnificence, but still strong in their differentness from written stories. Each mode has its ways and methods and rules. They can reinforce each other; this is the advantage my generation has - we can bring to the written story something of that energy of the story told by word of mouth.”

Way Stills Stories Energy Strong Written Generations Mouths Advantage Method Transition My Generation Magnificence Word Of Mouth

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.”

“You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.”

Stills I Can Inspiration Games Waiting Mystery Method Songwriting

Author:Conor Oberst

“In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.”

Ifs World Should Stills Fall Fiction Style Morality Method Victim Critics Insight Suspects Imperfect Favour Assured Mistrust Scribes

Author:Will Self

“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.”

People World Should Firsts Stills Might Form Social Rocks Ideals Stones Scientist Method Traits Autism Severe Caves Spears Campfire Ideal World

Book:Thinking in Pictures

Source: Thinking in Pictures

“A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: "What shall I do now?" In due course the reply came: "We suggest you learn to love them."”

Men Stills Spiritual Spirituality Courses Found Pride Letters Method Dues Department Agriculture Crops Lawns Dandelions

Book:The Song of the Bird

Source: The Song of the Bird

“I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.”

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Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go. I say remember, because you knew it already. And you know it still, but that knowledge is being repressed by the society.”

Knows Art Stills Helping Remember Meditation Letting Go Method Repressed

Author:Rajneesh

“Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.”

Men Believe Wells Mean Stills Different Use Law Science Found Belief Left My Own Numbers Knowledge Groups Fields Research Method Oil Pool Barrels Prospecting

Author:Charles Kettering

“In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.”

Thinking Giving Believe Stills Political Moral Support Economic Movement Encouragement Method Partisans Support And Encouragement

Author:Ray Stannard Baker

“I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.”

People Men World Giving Littles Stills War Government Care Given Secret Opinion Military Giving Up Devil Destruction Method Decent Superstitions Almighty Not Giving Up Calamity Infidel

Book:The American Crisis

Source: The American Crisis

“Foxes may be furrier and sexier than rats, but they are still vermin, and need to be controlled and killed. When I consider all the different methods of killing foxes, my view, backed up by Lord Burns, is that hunting with hounds is the most natural way to kill them . We have to be honest about the fact that what really upsets some of my hon. Friends - and, perhaps, some Opposition Members too - is the idea that only toffs go hunting. If only hunters did not wear red coats, things might be different.”

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Author:Kate Hoey

“I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.”

“But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.”

Men Stills Natural Powerful Resources Method Objectives Objectivity Natural Science

Author:Ivan Pavlov

“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”

“Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.”

Stills Whole Meditation Duty Method Self Realization Meditation Practice Whole Truth Spiritual Masters

Book:The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi

Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi

“The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.”

May Stills Energy Strong Fields Capable Method Improvement Application Extensions Particles Measurement Magnetic Magnetic Fields

Author:Victor Francis Hess

“The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence.”

Long Stills Levels Generations Trouble Century Birth Method Population Driven Range Assumption Projection Fertility Predicting

Author:Nicholas Eberstadt

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