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“The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This man had already passed through the two stages of observation and generalization. He had not, however, what scientific technique demands - a careful choice of significant facts on the one hand, and, on the other hand, various means of arriving at laws otherwise than my mere generalization.”

“I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.”

Thinking Way Mind Two Animal Alive Method Alternatives Destroying Hunting Foxes

Author:Bill Etherington

“Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.”

Should Two Ideas Truth Judgment Argument Logic Method Conclusion Latter Divided Examination Procedures Premises Search For Truth

Author:Andre-Marie Ampere

“Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.”

Firsts Mean Two Truth Form Science Three Nature Results Position Objects Paper Capable Method Depth Definitions Drawing Dimensions Description Length Geometry Width Three Dimensions

Author:Gaspard Monge

“My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.”

Two Science Parent Wonder Taught Scientist Method Introducing Skepticism Scientific Method

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.”

People Want Humans Kind Two Reason Use Action Activity Prove Method Human Activity

Book:The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895~1899 (Abridged)

Source: The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895~1899 (Abridged)

“For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.”

World Needs Two Enough Would Be Actors Method Stable Unhealthy Two Worlds

Author:Emily Browning

“We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.”

May Two Country Differences Deals Effort Source Europe Concern Method Determined Remove Adopted Two Countries Consultation

Author:Neville Chamberlain

“Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was five million Jews. There are certain methods by which any confession can be obtained, whether it is true or not.”

Wells Said Two Certain Half Millions Five Method Jew Statements Confession

Author:Rudolf Hess

“There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.”

Believe Two Belief Type Method Incredibles Believer Replaced Scientific Method Discarded

Author:Max Born

“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”

“There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.”

Men Needs Mean Two Political Desire Wealth Economic Method Productions Satisfied Appropriation

Author:Albert J. Nock

“Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.”

Firsts Persons Two Character Artist Sides Steps Teach Training Conscious Harmony Method Train Critics First Steps Both Sides Propositions Hostile Converses Craftsman

Book:Becoming a Writer

Source: Becoming a Writer