Quotes About Analysis

Volume is usually heavy in Stage 3 and the moves are sharp and choppy.

But how can I use a method to discredit that very method, if the method is discreditable?

The ocean—a source of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational impulses—spoke as it were in the language of mathematics; certain sequences of its electrical discharges could be classified by drawing on the most abstract branches of terrestrial analysis and of set theory; they contained homologues of structures known from the area of physics that is concerned with the mutual relationship between energy and matter, finite and infinite magnitude, particles and fields.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

But most of them, as you may have insinuated, Gine, do nothing but rehash their education, look up the theories of their predecessors, and debate them afresh.

I was in the shopping mall because that's where I go lately. For the last couple of weeks. I've been going there every day, trying to figure out why people go there. It's kind of a personal project.

I would recommend to anyone Professor Alan Bullock's definitive Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, Daniel Goldhagen's brilliant Hitler's Willing Executioners as well as the above mentioned Those Were the Days.

as we all know, decisions are often not rational or are based on a defective analysis of the consequences of the choice. That is why the world is in such a mess.

Kita malah memecah persoalan itu menjadi potongan-potongan kecil dan menciptakan sejumlah teori yang hanya menjelaskan sebagian. Tiap teori penjelas sebagian itu menjabarkan dan memprediksi sekelompok terbatas pengamatan, mengabaikan akibat besaran-besaran lain.

Hot?rârile noastre sunt adesea iraÈ›ionale sau se bazeaz? pe o analiz? incorect? a consecinÈ›elor alegerii. De aceea în lume e atâta dezordine.

Economics is also an effective theory, based on the notion of free will plus the assumption that people evaluate their possible alternative courses of action and choose the best. That effective theory is only moderately successful in predicting behavior because, as we all know, decisions are often not rational or are based on a defective analysis of the consequences of the choice. This is why the world is in such a mess.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all general impediments to scientific literacy.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.

she was still uncomfortable about her own motives and afraid to examine them too deeply

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.

Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

Why do women always have to go over and over a situation until it becomes a problem?

Perhaps Margery detected some of these mental gymnastics,