Quotes About Rigor

Three themes surface repeatedly in the book. The first theme centers on the importance of taking actions within the context of an analytically rigorous framework, implemented with discipline and under-girded with thorough analysis of specific opportunities.

steadfast in imposing penalties

The economic theorists' overvaluation of rigor is a symptom of their undervaluation of explanatory power.

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

There was something chilling in the systematic rigor with which he had proceeded, from the targeting of the companies to the timing and stealth of his trades.

The great artifice of regarding small deviations from the truth as being the truth itself is at the same time the foundation of wit, where the whole thing would often collapse if we were to regard these deviations in a spirit of philosophical rigor.

An 'open story of counting', it must be said that mathematical methodology is a cumulative effort rigorously built atop previous checks.

Me, I'm a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus.

I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

The central goals of Piaget's theory were to describe and explain the fecundity and rigor of thought (Piaget, 1936/1952, pp. 417–419; see Chapman, 1988, p. 144). Fecundity refers to the continuous construction of novel forms of thought in the course of development. Rigor refers to the reversibility (i.e., systemic coordination) and deductive necessity of thought (see Chapter 3, this volume).

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

the future lay in cultivating the scientist in all of us. If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves, and the world.

A Democratic Spirit's constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it's almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp's line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that the other camps 9 are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

If you want a place guarded properly, hire Germans.

You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.

For more than four hundred years we nurtured the belief (should that, perhaps, be faith?) that evidence-based investigation meeting scientific standards of rigor would reveal the true mechanism of nature. and yet when the mechanisms of nature were revealed to be quantum mechanisms, the worlds of science and philosophy were set on a collision course. instead of truth and comprehension, we got deeply unsettling questions about what we can ever hope to know about the world.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

It was the absence of doubt—and scientific rigor—that made medicine unscientific and caused it to stagnate for so long.

Alongside the liberating relief of the veteran who tells us his story, I now felt in the writing a complex, intense, and new pleasure, similar to that I felt as a student when penetrating the solemn order of differentials calculus. It was exalting to search and find, or create, the right word, that is, commensurate, concise, and strong; to dredge up events from my memory and describe them with the greatest rigor and the least clutter.

With his intellectual rigor goes a great generosity of spirit.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark