#method

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#her #i #intention #method #might

The plural of anecdote is not data. ↗

— Mark Sageman

#data #evidence #science #scientific-method #science

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing). ↗

— Bill Gaede

#extinction #gaede #hypothesis #knowledge #prediction

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ↗

— Henry Cotton

#domination #method #nerves #putting #secret

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#branches #essential #features #methods #numbers

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. ↗

— Seth Godin

#competition #find #invent #method #new

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules. ↗

— Roald Hoffmann

#barrier #beginning #could #day #discovered

I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families. ↗

— Joan Lunden

#build #child-bearing #cover #covering #encourage

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements. ↗

— Paul de Man

#certain #critical #denies #even #literary