Methods Quotes

• They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

  

  Georges Seurat
  • Done
  • Poetry
  • Methods

• You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Law
  • Fighting
  • Force

• Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.

  

  Andre-Marie Ampere
  • Logic
  • Arguments
  • Methods

• This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the exact answer. This is a theorist's heaven- exact results with approximate methods.

  

  Nathan Seiberg
  • Results
  • Methods
  • Theorist

• The experimental psychologist... needs historical sophistication within his own sphere of expertness. Without such knowledge he sees the present in distorted perspective, he mistakes old facts and old views for new, and he remains unable to evaluate the significance of new movements and methods. In this matter I can hardly state my faith too strongly. A psychological sophistication that contains no component of historical orientation seems to me to be no sophistication at all.

  

  Edwin Boring
  • Mistakes
  • Psychologist
  • Orientation

• New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

  

  Nina Fedoroff
  • Protect
  • Plants
  • Molecular

• One reason we would use plant medicine: to be able to take care of the body as a whole. Another reason is that it is accessible, approachable, and requires few invasive methods.

  

  Karen Rose
  • Reason
  • Care
  • Plant

• A rigid adherence to traditional methods is a huge hindrance to innovative problem solving.

  

  Gary Shapiro
  • Problem
  • Methods
  • Solving

• There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

  

  Susan Strasberg
  • Nonsense
  • Methods
  • Techniques

• Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • God
  • Methods
  • Better Man

• Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

  

  Hayden Christensen
  • Methods
  • Sense Of Self
  • Frame of mine

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