He may have acted like Kwame Brown's stern older brother, but even Brown, the No. 1 draft pick, understood the method to Michael Jordan's madness.
In putting forward his system as a hypothesis to explain the facts of experience, Gassendi showed that he understood the method characteristic of modern science, and he may well have helped to pave the way for corpuscular hypotheses in physics.
As for actual experiments performed, he deferred to a certain Master Peter de Maricourt (Maharn-Curia), a Picard, who alone, he wrote, understood the method of experiment and whom he called dominus experimentorum ("master of experiments").
As we shall see there were differences in how they understood the method and in their views of how it was to be applied.
Here was a chance to learn secrets, to understand the methods of transformation, to touch what Cellini had touched.
More generally, students will understand the methods through which constitutional analysis is conducted in U.S. courts.
Zhang's team struggles to understand the methods of data scientists — a problem, he says, that is common across the world.
As the news hit the world, other scientists not on the team busily worked at trying to understand the methods and the results.
"His chairmanship would have provided the insights and analysis the government needs to understand the methods of our enemies and the nature of the threats we face," Mr. Bush said.
To appreciate the "China effect" on developing countries, it is essential to understand the methods Beijing is using to exert influence and warp incentives for accountable governance.
