I call you metaphysicians because you reason metaphysically,” Ernest went on. “Your method of reasoning is the opposite to that of science. There is no validity to your conclusions. You can prove everything and nothing, and no two of you can agree upon anything. Each of you goes into his own consciousness to explain himself and the universe. As well may you lift yourselves by your own bootstraps as to explain consciousness by consciousness.”

There is no “black mind” or “white mind”, no “white male of knowing”, there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method.

Every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual. Our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning – and noting hath contributed more than that very measure to make the Kings of Europe absolute

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

It is really in the end a far more humane proceeding than our earthly method of leaving children to grow into human beings, and then making machines of them.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

I don’t have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It’s not a scientific thing.

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It’s like, there’s not! There’s not a method, there’s not a science to it.

It’s a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.

The method we used to descend from orbit to the surface of an alien world worked, but it would have been far more efficient and far less traumatic if we could just beam down.

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

Economics is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow

The idea that we must choose between the method of “winning hearts and minds” and the method of shaping behavior presumes that we have the right to choose at all. This is to grant us a right that we would surely accord to no other power. Yet the overwhelming body of American scholarship accords us this right.

The method of “postulating” what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.