Quotes About Analysis

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart's content with nothing more than a pencil and a napkin.

But that's bullshit!" Doug says. "Jesus! Haven't you guys spent any time at all around people like Comstock? Can't you recognize bullshit? Don't you think it would be a useful item to add to your intellectual toolkits to be capable of saying, when a ton of wet steaming bullshit lands on your head, 'My goodness, this appears to be bullshit'?

HE WORKED IT OUT FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES ON THE WHITEBOARD

Its title was "Virtual-Space Cartography from Manifold-Based Traffic Analysis.

And they had studied this problem. Graphed the frequency of doorway delivery-time disputes. Wired the early Deliverators to record, then analyze, the debating tactics, the voice-stress histograms, the distinctive grammatical structures employed by white middle-class Type A Burbclave occupants who against all logic had decided that this was the place to take their personal Custerian stand against all that was stale and deadening in their lives.

Nah, mathematicians stay away from actual, specific numbers as much as possible. We like to talk about numbers without actually exposing ourselves to them—that's what computers are for.

What is BFR?" asked Pete Starling. For the graph's vertical scale was labeled thus. "Bolide Fragmentation Rate

Well, it's all math," he says. "If the math works, why then you should be sure of yourself. That's the whole point of math.

I don't- I shake my head. (...) What? What were you going to say? This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain.

In short, were it not for our ability to analyze spectra, we would know next to nothing about what goes on in the universe.

All I ask is to see accurate and authentic data, analyzed from all directions—free of bias and tunnel vision—before I layer my emotions upon it. In the end, we must live with the consequences of our decisions. After all input of facts and statistical analysis, our emotions may defy reconciliation with data.

scientists are not in search of each other's opinions. We're in search of each other's data.

Individuals and church bodies are often caught in the paralysis of analysis. We

When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.