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“Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.”

“Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.”

Results Common Quality Subjects Method Arise Treatment Implications Similarity Copying Annoyance

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.”

Justice Subjects Balance Criticism Praise Method Critics Discrimination Censure

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).”

Source: Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered

“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

“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

“Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what she describes as an 'unblinking look' at their subjects - which might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed... the result is a work so bad that Britons cannot realise how fortunate they are in being unable to buy it. The great mistake with this book is not that it has been published in Britain, but that it has actually been published anywhere else.”

Writing Looks Mean Has Beens Book Might Eye Courses Language Results Mistake Subjects Method Fortunate Britain Realising Frank Her Eyes Biographies Nancy Great Mistakes Kitties Britons

Author:David Cannadine

“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.”

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.”

“The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.”

Science Lying Consciousness Subjects Fields Claims Method

Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.”

Moments Use Truth Science Belief Subjects Judging Method Doctrine Evolve Midst Here And There Corrections Scientific Method

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.”

Men Mind Different Real Speak Views Talking Subjects Method Conviction Point Of View Clearing Real Power Different Points Of View

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the judge … since you proceed according to the rational method, so shall I. … I will also give reason and take it. … This generation has an innate vice. It can’t accept anything that has been discovered by a contemporary!”

Giving Has Beens Reason Universe Accepting Generations Subjects Judging Method Vices Contemporary Rational Visible Innate This Generation Between You And Me

Author:Adelard of Bath

“Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.”

Way Subjects Position Approach Claims Method Skepticism

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.”

“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

“The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.”

Lying Subjects Claims Method

Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“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

“The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject " — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.”

“There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.”

Reason Facts Certain Values Subjects Materials Method Notion Educational Traditional Reason Why Diets Abstract Acquaintance Traditional Education

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.”

“It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.”

“To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.”

Self Seems School Force Sound Education Worst Subjects Produce Authority Method Intelligence Self Confidence Treatment Sentiments Sincerity Artificial Worst Things Pupils Subservient

Author:Albert Einstein

“In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a large jar of these insects, and made every teacher take one and hold it while I was speaking. If any one dropped the insect, I stopped till he picked it up. This was at that time a great innovation, and excited much laughter and derision. There can be no true progress in the teaching of natural science until such methods become general.”

Ifs Made Science Natural Teacher Progress Teaching Subjects Mass Laughter Innovation Method Excited Excitement Addresses Insects Newton Institute Jars Natural Science Derision Grasshoppers

Author:Louis Agassiz

“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.”

“To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.”

Knows Way States Body Science Causes Term Knowledge Subjects Disease Method Agents Organisms Cultivation Contagion Microbes

Book:Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology

Source: Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology

“Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for those untrained in the scientific method, who thus turn to the rigid certainty of the Bible instead. There is something comfortable about a view that allows for no deviation and that spares you the painful necessity of having to think.”

“The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most important step in the course of my methods of observation. If I have obtained some new results it is to this that I owe it.”

Ifs Has Beens Important Ideas Science Courses Results Steps Study Subjects Objects Method Faults Determined Observation

Author:Marcel Alexandre Bertrand

“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

“If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.”

Ifs Way Trying Firsts Believe Happens Lying Force I Believe Subjects Photography Method Photographer

Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“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

“Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of necessity to protect oneself, and are not continued but are instead converted into the greatest possible benefits for the subjects. Badly used are those cruelties which. although being few at the outset, grow with the passing time instead of disappearing. Those who follow the first method can remedy their condition with God and with men; the others cannot possibly survive.”

Ifs Men Firsts Wells Done Used Evil Speak Grows Conditions Subjects Protect Benefits Method Oneself Disappear Passing Passings Cruelty Remedy Strokes

Book:The Portable Machiavelli

Source: The Portable Machiavelli

“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.”

“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

“The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”

“The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete, our language in the future will change to a saner language where we have no argument in it, 'can there be such a language?' there is, when engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation, they use math, they use descriptive systems, if I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it: you couldn't build bridges, dams, power transmission lines. The language has to have meaning”

“When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.”

Men Mind Firsts Body Suffering Heaven Poverty Subjects Exercise Office Method Hunger Extremes Bones Toil Supplies Undertakings Extreme Poverty Great Office

Book:The Chinese Classics

Source: The Chinese Classics

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