Methods Quotes
687 quotes by 537 authors
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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it…
— Charles Pierce
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If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate…
— Steven Pinker
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Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather…
— Steven Pinker
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I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
— Joan Rivers
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In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics;…
— Will Self
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There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
— Jane Smiley
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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers…
— Benjamin Spock
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The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where…
— Serj Tankian
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Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims,…
— Edward Thorndike
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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like…
— Leon Trotsky
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The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
— Earl Warren
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I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
— Paul Weller
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new…
— Virginia Woolf
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the…
— Mao Zedong
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Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on…
— Julian Baggini
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During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated…
— Martin Filler
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Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional…
— Martin Filler
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the…
— Shelby Foote
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