Quotes About Analysis

As in poetry, so in mythology, the figures must submit to the same dual interpretation.

Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures, stick a label on the restored find and—hey, presto!—once again everything fits splendidly into the approved pattern of thought.

If some busybody were to cross-examine me on the chapters already written, he could probably shed much more light on them, and if it were a hostile critic's cross-examination, he might even flatter himself for having shown up [make the world laugh by revealing] the hollowness of many of my pretensions.

Camera obscura. The reverse engineering of our brain allows us to disassemble all the little pieces in the "camera obscura" of our mind and to identify changes and choices made, after absorbing the phenomena of our life.

what were you thinking?

Answer: The answer is 30. There are two tricks in this question. The first is 1 times 0. This is only a distraction. Yes, 1 times 0 is 0, but that doesn't affect anything else in the equation. The second trick is that the lines ending with 1 don't have a + sign next to them. That means they should be combined with the following line. Here are the numbers, all on one line: 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 11 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 11 + 1 x 0 + 1 = ? And the answer to that equation is 30.

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

The modern scientific method in which experiments form part of a structured system of hypothesis, experimentation, and analysis is as recent as the seventeenth century; the problem-solving technology of cooking goes back thousands of years.

Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

There is simply too much to think about. It is hopeless -- too many kinds of special preparation are required. In electronics, in economics, in social analysis, in history, in psychology, in international politics, most of us are, given the oceanic proliferating complexity of things, paralyzed by the very suggestion that we assume responsibility for so much. This is what makes packaged opinion so attractive.

That's how real men settle their differences, through reasoned discussion and a dispassionate analysis. He farted as I reached the inner door, a sign, I decided, of his respect. Alexander

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

It was rumored that Sir Bernard could identify the cause of death simply by smelling a corpse. In 1938, the Washington Post hailed him as "England's modern Sherlock Holmes.

Most Secret Sources showed that Garbo's reports, five or six a day, were being relayed to Berlin, promptly and almost verbatim, along with his analysis of their meaning. The hoax was being injected straight into the central nervous system of the Third Reich.

human behaviour, if scrutinized sufficiently intensely, can begin to seem suspicious:

Silicon Valley was a town made up of engineers who thought in frameworks, decision trees, and game theory.

I was neither devotedly pro- nor anti-Keynesian.

was coming to a similar conclusion.

As Hank moved from one issue to another, pressing for solutions or more analysis, I could see why he had been an effective CEO.

I asked for daily reports on developments at major financial firms and,

did a poor job of measuring and managing the risks they were taking on.

arguing that its benefits usually outweigh the costs imposed on businesses and consumers.

It was premature to make a definitive judgment about the effects of QE2, but the early signs seemed promising.