Quotes About Analysis

Wer etwas annähernd Objektives über unsere Sicherheit erfahren möchte, sollte nicht den staatlichen Sicherheitsexperten oder den medialen Angstprofiteuren zuhören, sondern lieber einen Blick in die Statistiken werfen.

Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?" ~ Immanuel Velikovsky

Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In some ways this was a historical accident, not entirely Europe's fault. But, in any case, it is nothing about which Europe should boast. Perhaps Europe and the world will one day be cured of this terrible malady with which Europe (and through Europe the world) has been afflicted.

You are a reader, not a cheerleader" (from interview at Lilies and Cannonballs Review)

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names.

As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.

Problems arise for the introverts because they often do not look closely enough at the outer situation and, therefore, do not really see it. The extraverts often do not stop looking at the specific situation long enough to see the underlying idea.

among the STs, the introverts (IST) organize the facts and principles related to a situation;

In the sample of accountants, 64 percent were ST, and among the finance and

In order to come to a conclusion, people use the judging attitude and have to shut off perception for the time being.

we never shall discover all the causal chains that operate: the number of such causes is infinitely great, the causes themselves infinitely small; historians select an absurdly small portion of them and attribute everything to this arbitrarily chosen tiny section.

No new truths await discovery; everything has been given already. But it has all been scattered abroad and dispersed, misrepresented by analysis, dulled by routine repetition. The essential words have been prostituted. We must recover the vital meaning of these ideas.

All interpretation is a use of violence and caprice against a text.

In psychoanalysis there is never repetition, neither of the same images nor

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

good decision-making is the key to good outcomes. Reject absolute answers and recognize uncertainty. Weigh the probabilities. Don't let uncertainty paralyze you. And evaluate decisions not just on the results, but on how they are made." 1

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

One evening, the story goes, the two men were looking out of their laboratory window in Heidelberg at a fire raging in the nearby town of Mannheim. Curious about what might be burning, they pointed their spectroscope at the flames. They were able to detect the presence of the elements barium and strontium in the fire, whose spectra they had previously identified in their laboratory. The question struck them immediately: if they could analyse flames in Mannheim, why not the surface of the Sun?

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress.

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress. If the children are our future, then critical thinking must be their guide.

I've let it remain as it was to see what it is.