Quotes About Analysis

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private lives and when looking at history.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.

The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context.

When we lose, watching a game tape is therapeutic for me because it brings clarity to what happened. And when we win it's fun and rewarding to see our guys do what we ask them to do.

I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won't alienate the listener.

I would have loved to have been a psychiatrist or therapist.

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.