Quotes About Analysis

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

Third, we are able to look at the causal skein of mental illness and unravel it, either by longitudinal studies—the same people over time—or experimental studies, which would get rid of third variables.

This is the tome that guides haruspication—I mean, psychiatry.)

they were "very clever in inventing reasons" for a sudden rise or fall in stock prices,

conclusions:

Of 1,028 stock recommendations made by the typical brokerage firm during the first quarter of 2001 (the peak if the bull market), only 7 were "sell" recommendations.

In the short run, the stock market is a voting machine; in the long run it is a weighing machine. —Benjamin Graham, Security Analysis (1934)

My final two cents worth of advice is to develop an all-consuming curiosity for things both exotic and ordinary. Read, observe, analyze, and become involved with a variety of interests. Study, practice, delve, probe, investigate, and above all, be flexible. Keep an open mind. The world is changing fast. Don't get caught in the corner of the ring. - Ward Kimball

Everybody "thinks" - Homo sapiens means "thinking man" - but most people don't "think" very well.

There is a fine line between reading a message from the text and reading one into the text.

If you're not thinking about numbers, you're probably not thinking.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

A problem properly stated is half solved.

The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter

I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself to think.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.