Quotes About Analysis

Analysing games on the TV is something that appeals to me, and anything where you watch football and get paid for it is not a bad living!

That is the problem we have in Argentina: we do not sit down and think.

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

You can imagine all the things that people want in machine learning and artificial intelligence area that we're working on, that we'll continue to work on in the future.

If, in all the circumstances of life a man does not turn over and over both things and ideas in order to examine them thoroughly under their different aspects before taking action, that man is weak and incomplete and in danger of fatal failure.

Los ojos comparan antes de que el corazón haya rectificado este rápido y maquinal juicio.

I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.

Although it is not as famous as Kuhn's SSR, Bas van Fraassen's book The Scientific Image (1980) has certainly had a profound effect on the philosophy of science

Steven Toulmin's very insightful analysis and critique of Kuhn is found in his outstanding analysis of conceptual change Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evaluation of Human Concepts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972

Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979; reprinted with new postscript and index in 1986).

A very clear and succinct statement is in the introduction to his Methods of Logic, fourth edition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982

As I have heard it put, a critical thinker is good at distinguishing gold from bullshit

There's only one way to describe most investors: trend followers.

Theological analysis: The investigative side of theology that seeks to sort out and evaluate the understanding of faith implicit or explicit in any given statement or action. Theological construction: The synthetic (integrative) side of theology that seeks to fashion a fresh exposition of the meaning of faith in the Christian message.

It is too easy for the sheer mass of big data to overwhelm the sorts of healthy skepticism that is required to defeat deception. And now, with so much of our lives being tied up with giant electronic memory systems, it is almost trivial for terabytes of data to accumulate on almost any topic.

Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe.

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

There are two basic ways to criticize an argument: â–  Challenge the premises-show that at least one is false. â–  Challenge the reasoning-show that the premises are not a good reason for the conclusion.

Any given study seems to prove a lot, but put together, they are so at odds with each other that the net effect is inconclusive.

like we're hanging on your every brilliant deduction.

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.