“Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.” UseActivityToolsMethodPreservesEmploying Book:The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956 Source: The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956
“....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.” EarthToolsMethodFundamentalsRemainsAncientRitualPloughing Author:Patience Strong
“The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".” ScienceUsedToolsMathematicsMethodChecksVersionsGradesSophisticatedFifthFifth Grade Author:Richard A. Falk
“How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.” RealHandsScienceTimeUnderstandingTheoryDevelopmentToolsMathematicsMethodComplicatedMathInventionMathematicalCastingHand In Hand Author:David Hilbert
“Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.” PhilosophyUsedCarToolsPhilosophicalMethodNailsKnockingRefrigeratorsPhenomenology Author:Colin Wilson
“My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy.” PeopleThinkingWritingImportantBookDifferentUseCultureUnderstandingAudienceStudyNeededProjectsResearchToolsMethodStrategyAvailableResearchersQualitativeOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
“There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.” MenNeedsFirstsPersonsFactsEffortBehindsTeacherTeachingCenturyApproachCapableOrdinaryToolsPerformancesIncreaseMethodMedicineAvailableProductivitySuperiorsTraditionalCraftsRapidsCompetenceReactionariesOrdinary PersonNew ApproachSuperior Performance Author:Peter Drucker
“Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students. It requires no method, no tools, and no training. Just the ability to be real. And if you can't be real, then you have no right to inflict yourself upon innocent children.” IfsChildrenRealAbilityTeachingHonestInformationStudentsIntellectualTrainingToolsMethodInnocentBeing RealInnocent Children Author:Paul Lockhart
“Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!” MenWayViolenceHe ManToolsMethodCrueltyPrimitiveAggressionSavagesBarbariansBloodshedCivilised Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.” PeopleMenHateNamesInterestPathCuttingHigherToolsDifficultyMethodExtraordinaryComplicatedBarsOpeningPursueStatisticsFormidableThickets Author:Francis Galton
“I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.” BelieveHumansPersonsEventsToolsMethodConsistently Author:John L. Casti
“It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.” NationsInterestEconomyCivilizationToolsMethodObjectivesObjective Truth Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“My primary early interest was in marketing and my aim was to improve its theories, methods and tools. Early on I pressed companies to adopt a consumer orientation and to be in the value creation business. I didn't pay much attention to the social responsibilities of business until later. Now I am pressing companies to address the triple bottom line: people, the planet, and profits. I found that companies were too much into short term profit maximization and they needed to invest more in sustainability thinking.” PeopleThinkingValuesFoundSocialTermInterestLinesPayAttentionResponsibilityCompanyToo MuchCreationPlanetsTheoryNeededToolsAimMethodBottomMarketingProfitPrimariesConsumersAddressesSustainabilitySocial ResponsibilityBottom LineShort TermOrientationProfit Maximization Author:Philip Kotler
“I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues. If I did, I would give students the tools to take the tests but not spend an inordinate amount of time on test prep nor on 'teaching to the test.' If the students, or their parents, want drill in testing, they'd have to go elsewhere. As a professional, my most important obligation is to teach the topic, skills, and methods in ways that I feel are intellectually legitimate.” IfsWayWantGivingFeelsImportantParentMy OwnTeachVirtueTeachingStudentsAmountSkillsToolsTestsMethodObligationStakesElsewhereTopicsTestingModeratesRelievedDrillsTeaching And EducationPreps Author:Howard Gardner
“The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.” WayWritingDifferentUsedSongRecordsTypeCreatingPicksToolsMethodInstrumentsGuitarBest WayPianoAcousticsElectronicsAcoustic Guitar Author:Serj Tankian
“The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.” EndsToolsMethodInsightOperationsBarriersMarchEpicBreach Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“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.” WayGivingRealityUniversePowerfulAcceptingSubjectsHumilityRevolutionToolsAbsolutesMethodAccomplishFearlessDeceptionPermanentMost PowerfulScientific MethodRevisionAbsolute TruthApproximation Author:Ann Druyan
“Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.” WayHumansArtPhilosophyFormScienceIndividualUnderstandingNatureImaginationHuman BeingsResultsActivityDiscoveryToolsAccountsPhilosophicalMethodBest WayDoctrineUnexpectedIntroducingHuman ActivityPractiseAdvances In Science Author:Freeman Dyson
“Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.” FoundDestinyModernFieldsEssentialsToolsMethodNuclearPhysicsApplicationCoincidencePhysicistExaggerationNuclear Physics Author:Walther Bothe
“Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.” ChildrenEnoughLanguageGivenOpinionTeachHumilityToolsOur ChildrenMethodCertaintyUncertaintyTolerateProbabilityCorrectnessLikelihoodAnalyzingRanking Author:Robert A. Burton
“Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance.” ThinkingIdeasRealTodayJobsFormIndividualEffectsSecurityMaterialsTomorrowToolsMethodIndividualityContributionProgressiveNational SecurityMachineryFacilityUtilizingManpower Author:Robert R. Shannon
“I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.” ImportantShowsBodyHandsBrainTechnologyMaterialsEssentialsResearchToolsMethodImportant ThingsDevelopingOur ThoughtsNew TechnologyConductingCraftsmanship Author:Issey Miyake
“If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make better decisions and improve our overall well-being? That's exactly the meaning of free lunches- the idea that there are tools, methods, and policies that can help all of us make better decisions and as a consequence achieve what we desire-pg. 241” IfsWellsIdeasHelpingDesireDecisionMistakeAchievePolicyConsequenceToolsMethodStrategyWell BeingWhy NotLunchSystematicFree Lunch Author:Dan Ariely