Quotes About Analysis

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

I honestly think that a Pavlik fight would be easier than Jones because styles make fights. He's one dimensional, comes in straight lines, I love that.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

Oh, you can trust the studies well enough, generally speaking. What you can't trust are the sweeping conclusions that people often attach to them.

There is actually a certain value in not finding anything," he said. "It helps cosmologists to work out the rate at which galaxies are evolving.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting

Data from any single gene cannot really tell you anything so definitive. If

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of years ago is much more dangerous than playing with a loaded gun. Ancient scrawls, written by different authors in different centuries with different agendas--yeah, let's get mad literal about that . The literalness problem is compounded in religion by the circular logic of not being allowed to question anything, or else you're lacking faith.

As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind

It is only by examining a book that we can ascertain what words it contains.

Hold on," Moms said, processing the information. "You're saying he should have been dead based on your analysis, but he was still alive. And alive enough to attack us?" "Yes.

Instead the analysts debated whether Kim Jong Un was a brilliant, strategic genius manipulating other countries, including the U.S., or an inexperienced, impulsive fool.

The CIA never figured out conclusively who wrote and crafted Kim's letters to Trump. They were masterpieces. The analysts marveled at the skill someone brought to finding the exact mixture of flattery while appealing to Trump's sense of grandiosity and being center stage in history.

he referred to Project Blue Book as going from the investigation of the unexplained to the "explanation of the uninvestigated.

That was the difference between science and the intelligence field. Scientists came up with an answer and used it to find facts while intelligence operatives came up with facts and used them to find an answer.

Considering what?

RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an "optimization problem.