Quotes About Critical

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.

Every game is decided by one or two plays that teams do or don't make; you've got to make them or else you lose.

Architecture is the decisions that you wish you could get right early in a project, but that you are not necessarily more likely to get them right than any other. —Ralph Johnson

The critical rules and critical data are inextricably bound, so they are a good candidate for an object. We'll call this kind of object an Entity.1

When you reach the point at which even the most trivial acts are punishable by the death of the species, then obviously, obviously, you're at a critical juncture, a different kind of point of no return.

Understand this: In the game of power, the people you associate with are critical. The risk of associating with infectors is that you will waste valuable time and energy trying to free yourself. Through a kind of guilt by association, you will also suffer in the eyes of others. Never underestimate the dangers of infection.

I came to realize that having a critical grasp of cultist behavior is an important step toward undermining claims of owned reality, and that this was best done from observations on actual human behavior.

almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.