Method Quotes

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

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

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

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

“I don’t know how to act, so I have to find a way to make it real.”

“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!”

“The true method of philosophy is the method of the natural sciences.”

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

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”

“The difference between science and screwing around is writing it down.”

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

“Whenever you have a new observation, you can either try to explain it with existing theories, or you can say that the existing theories are wrong.”

“The whole point of the scientific method is to keep our prejudices out of it.”

“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.”

“He who is not bigoted to any system, will be careful to found his divisions upon some real and visible distinction.”

“I'm not a Method actor. I'm a kind of 'what you see is what you get' actor.”

“Languages are true analytical methods.”

“Passing just lately over this lake, and seeing the water as green as if it were covered with duckweed, I took a glass of it.”

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