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Method Quotes by David Hilbert
- Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that…
- He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
- 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…
More Method Quotes
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
- Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality… — Camille Paglia
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell
- Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved… — Nikola Tesla
- In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein
- The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is… — Karl Pearson