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Method may refer to:

• How to do or make something
• Scientific method, a series of steps taken to acquire knowledge
• Method (computer science), a piece of code associated with a class or object to perform a task
• Method (music), a kind of textbook to help students learning to play a musical instrument
• Method (patent), a series of steps or acts for performing a function
• Methodology, the collection, the comparative study, and the critique of the individual methods that are used in a given discipline or field of inquiry
• Software development process, a series of steps taken to build software
• Method acting, a style of acting in which the actor attempts to replicate the conditions under which the character operates
• Method (Godhead), the bassist and programmer for the industrial band Godhead
• Discourse on Method, a philosophical and mathematical treatise by René Descartes
• "The Method of Mechanical Theorems", part of the Archimedes Palimpsest
• Method, a 2004 film directed by Duncan Roy
• method, a San Francisco-based corporation which manufactures household products
• Method ringing, a British style of ringing church bells according to a series of mathematical algorithms

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• Method is essential, and enables a larger amount of work to be got through with satisfaction. "Method," said Cecil (afterward Lord Burleigh), "is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get in half as much again as a bad one." Cecil's despatch of business was extraordinary; his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
  • Samuel Smiles

• The nature science speaks about its results, the social science speaks about its method.
  • Henri Poincaré