Method Quotes

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Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis… — Andre-Marie Ampere
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so… — Elihu Thomson
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak… — Paul Feyerabend
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle,… — Thomas Young
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and… — Edward Condon
Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving… — Charles V. Chapin
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists. — Percy Williams Bridgman
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and… — Andrei Sakharov
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe, always evolving may… — Hannes Alfven
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my… — Francois-Joseph Servois
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish… — A.J. Ayer
The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements.… — Paul Carus
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over… — Arthur M. Wellington
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time… — Ronald Sydney Nyholm
There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of… — Joseph John Thomson
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods… — Hans Bethe
Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict… — Albert Low
Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting… — Azzedine Alaia

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