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Method Quotes by Robert A. Burton
- 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…
- Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not a testable conclusion.…
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- 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
- Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon
- 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