Quotes About Analysis

The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use – these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants.

The historian, like any other scientist, is an animal who incessantly asks the question: Why?

the facts of history never come to us pure, since they do not and cannot exist in a pure form: they are always refracted through the mind of the recorder. It follows that when we take up a work of history, our first concern should not be with the facts which it contains but with the historian who wrote it.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

That is about all I have learned—to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.

Anyone who spotted a weed in a neglected field—a nice wild sorrel, say—and wanted to know whether it had come from a seed that had sprouted in the field, was blown in by the wind, or had been dropped there by a bird, would never, no matter how long they pondered it, reach a conclusion

In fact, the CDC would later implicitly acknowledge the system's value when it admitted in June that the mRNA vaccines could cause myocarditis—a potentially serious heart problem—in young men. Side effect reports from VAERS formed the core of the agency's analysis.37 Yet even after that finding, the stories dismissing the value of the VAERS reports went on.38 I am not an "anti-vaxxer.

there are two forms of observation: the first is on the detail and the second is on the big picture.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Diaries teach us that it is too much to be inside anybody's head. It is a horrible place. All that repetition; that endless analysis that doesn't analyze, just mulls a point over and over until it drops dead from banality.

The illness with which he'd been smittenshould have been analyzed when caught,something like spleen, that scourge of Britain,or Russia's chondria, for short.

Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

By nature, critical people are inclined to find fault or to judge others with severity and often too readily.

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.