Quotes About Analysis

Today none of the old assertions are accepted any longer just because they were written long ago. Instead, people demand proof in practice of what is asserted; they want a scientific analysis of all assertions. Out of this dissatisfaction, revolutionary ideas are born and spread more and more throughout the world, backed by the living examples of how technology can be put at the service of man, as has happened in the socialist countries.

I always ask my students to answer two questions about the work they and their peers have written: What happened in this story? and What is this story about?

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

The plural of anecdote is data.

Statistics can be made to prove anything — even the truth.

A statistical analysis properly conducted is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. The surgeon must guard carefully against false incisions...

Statistics is a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

Statistics are just a way for the mathematician to evangelize his faith.

Advertising is only another form of statistics.

But you're examining and describing the cart, and from it postulating the horse.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Thus, in addition to his double life as a spy, Defoe also led a dounle life as an economist- without realizing it, he created the central character in free market economics in his fictional work, umyet his own economic analysis clearly illustrated the limits of free market and free trade.

very often the main problem we face in making a good decision is not the lack of information but our limited capability to process that information

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.

una victoria electoral de la izquierda habría inducido a los fascistas a tratar de subir al poder mediante el habitual golpe de Estado militar. En todo caso habría que enfrentarse a ellos con las armas en la mano. Los acontecimientos han confirmado la corrección de este cálculo; el análisis de los anarquistas era más realista que el de los políticos tradicionales.

Analysis of error begins with analysis of language.

Eski biyografi yazarlar? kahramanlar?n? sadece bilinç yüzeyinde de?erlendirdiler. Hâlbuki bilinçalt?, bilinci taht?ndan etti.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

The proliferation of nominalizations in a discursive formation may be an indication of a tendency toward pomposity and abstraction.

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.