Quotes About Analysis

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

The less we understand a phenomenon, the more variables we require to explain it.

What kind of theorist?' 'The worst kind,' murmured De Courcy. 'A prancing theorist.

Bo... bo... nie wypada - No widzisz. Twoja odpowied? nic nie znaczy, nie wytrzymuje analizy intelektualnej. Jest typow? odpowiedzi? konwencjonaln?.

In considering man, made up of body and spirit, we must not regard him as body alone, or as spirit alone. The analysis of his body by the anatomist and chemist is satisfactory so long as it is not opposed to the analysis of the spirit by the metaphysician.

The intellect cannot laugh, it can only dissect.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

Ongoing evaluation

Make for thyself a definition or description of the thing which is presented to thee, so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing it is in its substance, in its nudity, in its complete entirety, and tell thyself its proper name, and the names of the things of which it has been compounded, and into which it will be resolved.

At all times, look at the thing itself—the thing behind the appearance—and unpack it by analysis: cause substance purpose and the length of time it exists.

To investigate and analyze, with understanding and logic, the principles we ought to live by.

Nothing is so conducive to spiritual growth as this capacity for logical and accurate analysis of everything that happens to us.

One addition to the precepts already mentioned. Always make a definition or sketch of what presents itself to your mind, so you can see it stripped bare to its essential nature and identify it clearly, in whole and in all its parts, and can tell yourself its proper name and the names of those elements of which it is compounded and into which it will be dissolved.

Efface imagination! Cease to be pulled as a puppet by thy passions. Isolate the present. Recognize what befalls either, thee or another. Dissect and analyze all that comes under thy ken into the Causal and the Material. Meditate on thy last hour. Let the wrong thy neighbour does thee rest with him that did the wrong;

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run...

One detaches oneself. One describes.

She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.

Canlit might not exert the fascination of - say - a venereal wart.

She's taken to renaming him according to her own analysis of his mood of the day, or his mood of the hour, or his mood of the minute: according to her, he's moody. Each mood is personified and given an honorific, so he's Mr. Grumpy, Mr. Sleepy, Dr. Ironic, Sir Sardonic, and sometimes, when she's being sarcastic or possibly nostalgic, Mr. Romantic.

part. I must think of every objection she might

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.