#method

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. ↗

— Sallust

#envy #gained #honesty #i #methods

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#biology #brother #developed #even #him

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. ↗

— George Santayana

#each #enabling #fortifying #help #human

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#american #american culture #archaeology #convinced #culture

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#arrangement #arriving #being #certain #decisions

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#birth #doctrine #especially #evolution #given

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones. ↗

— Huston Smith

#came #experiments #false #gave #hypotheses

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle. ↗

— Jeff Smith

#arm #chinese #eating #except #i

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

#achieve #choose #enough #goal #idealism

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. ↗

— George Stigler

#determining #efficient #enterprises #i #integration