Quotes About Analysis

I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matter how fast you make your system, you're never going to be able to get all that information.

The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

If you've got good systemising skills you can apply them to systems you aren't familiar with, and look for patterns.

One way to focus on details is to describe the various parts that make up the whole. A tangerine, for instance, consists of rind, juice, seeds, fruit, pulp, grainy membranes, stem, blossoms and leaves. Describing each of these parts will force you to notice details you might otherwise overlook, what Chekhov called the "little particulars." Later you may decide you've included too many particulars. If so, you can always remove some of them or group them in a different way. In

We take the position that research - not anecdotes, not "plausible beliefs", not common sense, and not our everyday experience - should be the basis for understanding and evaluating our decision-making achievements and defeats.

It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

Los orígenes del método están, según nos cuenta Descartes ( Discurso), en la lógica, el análisis geométrico y el álgebra. Conviene ante todo insistir en que el gravísimo defecto de la lógica de Aristóteles es, para Descartes, su incapacidad de invención.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

The modern critic in his concerted effort to undermine the structure of all religious, moral, and cultural distinctions ultimately brings these distinctions crashing down on his own head. He sets himself up as the prophet of new insights and new ideas, as the sole possessor of an infallible system of analysis - and finds himself condemned to recapitulate all the age-old distinctions of difference: Tiresias redivivus!

War is a total social phenomenon. In this respect, Clausewitz's analysis is a precursor of Durkheim's sociology. Clausewitz has things to teach us about "mass" violence and contagion.

The essential point of view advanced here is this: the stability of every living being, as of every structurally stable form, rests, in the last analysis, on a for- mal structure—in fact, a geometrical object—whose biochemical realization is the living being.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Misinterpretations of Revelation often begin by misconceiving the kind of book it is.

We start with the evidence, and then figure out what the best explanation of it all really is, regardless of where this quest for truth takes us.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is absolutely nothing else to do.

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. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.

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.