Method Quotes

“Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually discovered nothing at all.”

“I never went to acting school. I'm a pure instinctual actor. I've always been a people watcher.”

“What's my secret? Dynamic Tension. That's what!”

“Languages are true analytical methods.”

“What's important is to be able to get inside the character's head.”

“Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observation.”

“I start with the titles. I have a list of titles and I just choose one.”

“I'm not a method actor. I don't believe in it. I think it's a lot of nonsense, quite frankly.”

“Science is the only method of seeking truth that is self-correcting.”

“My purpose is to be an annalist, not a commentator.”

“The hermeneutic phenomenon is basically not a problem of method at all.”

“You have deserted—after a start in that tram-road of all solid physical truth—the true method of induction.”

“In every department of physical science, there is only one language, and that is the language of experiment.”

“I have to have a subject to be moved. I'm not a photographer who's going to go out and just shoot.”

“If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.”

“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.”

“To be a scientist you have to be a skeptic.”

“Everything I do, I do on instinct.”

“I'm not a slash-and-burn kind of person.”

“I profess to learn and teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.”