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• By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

  Francis Collins

  Religious, Scientific Method, Logical

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• New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

  Lawren Harris

  Challenges, Demand, Methodology

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• You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, America

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.19, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.

  Paulo Freire

  People, World, Problem

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

  Paulo Freire

  Manipulation, Individual, Appetite

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Science, Psychology, Analysis

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

  Charles Fourier

  Civilization, Doubt, Excellence

  "The Social Destiny of Man: Or, Theory of the Four Movements".

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• My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

  George Polya

  Overcoming, Difficulty, Rounds

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.

  John W. Campbell

  Men, Bird, Trying

  John W. Campbell Jr. (1955). “Who Goes There?: And Other Stories”

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• A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions.  If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

  Vernon Howard

  Perfect, Needs, Awakening

  "The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power". Book by V. A. Howard, 1967.

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• The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

  John Burroughs

  Incredibles, Christianity, Insight

  John Burroughs (1900). “The Light of Day: Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Naturalist's Point of View”

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• When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

  Chuck Close

  Art, Thinking, Air

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• Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross.

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf

  Heart, Son, Blood

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• Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Practice, People

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• Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods.

  Jacque Fresco

  Essentials, Connections, Academia

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• My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection.

  Carlos Gracie, Jr.

  Spiritual, Art, Growing Up

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• Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis for developing reforms, Richard Willson remedies the problem that many planners feel unqualified to challenge and change long-standing minimum parking requirements.

  Donald Shoup

  Long, Giving, Challenges

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• A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

  Alfred Binet

  Memories, Intelligent, Practice

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• Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Teacher, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

  Aleister Crowley

  Regret, Father, Mean

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 66, 1969.

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• A goal without a method is nonsense.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Goal, Management, Nonsense

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• An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

  George Polya

  Math, Ideas, Used

  "Problems and Theorems in Analysis I: Series. Integral Calculus. Theory of Functions".

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• The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Challenges, Assumption, Prevailing

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Justice, Criticism, Balance

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