Quotes of: Scientific-method Keyword

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Discourse on Method

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Agatha Christie

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .

This Incredible Need to Believe

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

The Prince

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Ralph Chaplin

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

Linda Tripp

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'

Megan Fox

I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.

Michael Franti

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

Robert Pinsky

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

Richard Stallman

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

Jarvis Cocker

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

Timothy Noah

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.

John Moody

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

Jack Kevorkian

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

Tony Hoare

Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny... There's no time for anything to develop.

Ron Shock

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

Barton Gellman

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

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Chris Carter