Hem/methods

Famous quotes containing the words hem and/or methods:

    A cook they hadde with hem for the nones
    To boille the chiknes with the marybones.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)