Quotes About Analysis

Hope is not the basis for policy. Wise policymakers analyze major issues such as immigration carefully and look at facts and probabilities instead of just hoping for the best.

The wise policymaker doesn't assume that any policy adopted in good faith will have good results. Instead, he or she weighs the likely outcome of any new policy based on facts and experience - not sentiments and dreams.

Film wise, I always just kind of watch the offense overall.

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge of the scene, secure evidence, follow leads.

A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

All our wives are experimental psychologists.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

I think women are excellent social critics.

I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes.

The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out.

Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.

I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.