Method Quotes
1671 quotes by 1198 authors
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If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in…
— Ralph W. Moss
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The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence…
— Carol Tavris
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The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Every man is a new method.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Each mind has its own method.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out…
— Marcus Aurelius
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More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity:
— Catharine Arnold
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How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on…
— Marvin Minsky
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Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On…
— Marvin Minsky
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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption…
— George Bernard Shaw
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If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
— C.S. Lewis
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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…
— John Taylor Gatto
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It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an…
— Clarence Darrow
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Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most…
— William J. Clinton
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that…
— David Gelernter
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I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put…
— Michael J. Fox
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We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and…
— Pope Francis
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating…
— Al Franken
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