method quotes

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

- Matthew Arnold
  Literature and Dogma, ch.12.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

-John Barrymore
Quoted in  Actors about  Acting, Loving, Living, Life (1972).

Woebetidethemanwhogoestoantiquity for thestudyof anything other than ideal art, logic and general method!

- Charles Baudelaire
c.1860  Letter, published in The Painter of Modern Life (1863).

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure sciencethat of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

-James Bryant Conant
  Letter to the NewYork Times,13  Aug.

You know my methods. Apply them.

- SirArthur Conan Doyle
  The Sign of Four, ch.6.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

- SirArthur Conan Doyle
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'.

Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves; it describes nature as exposed to our method of questioning.

-Werner Heisenberg
  Physics and Philosophy.

Insurrectionby means of guerrilla bandsis the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke.

- Giuseppe Mazzini
  General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, section 4.

All method is imperfect. Error is all around it, and at the least opportunity invades it† But what can we do? There is no other way.

- CharlesJules Henri Nicolle
  Biologie de l'Invention.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been.It'sgood for testing thetruth of what youthink you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

- Robert M(aynard) Pirsig
  Zen and theArt of Motorcycle Maintenance, pt.3, ch.24.

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
  A Free Man'sWorship and Other Essays.

Ever since I was engaged on Principia Mathematica, I have had a certainmethod of whichat first Iwasscarcely conscious, but which has gradually become more explicit in my thinking. The method consists in an attempt to build a bridge between the world of sense and the world of science.

- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
  My Philosophical Development, ch.16.

Thesorts ofthingsthat Icanfind out about myselfarethe same as thesorts of things that I canfind out about other people and the methods of finding them out are much the same.

- Gilbert Ryle
  The Concept of Mind.

Ishould haveno objectiontothismethod, butthat Ithink it must smell too strong of the lamp.

- Laurence Sterne
^67  Toby.Tristram Shandy, bk.1, ch.23.