Quotes About Analysis

Money is not the wealth of a nation, but production is wealth; so ordered production is the main object for humanity. But to have the maximum of production, it is necessary to have production put on a sound basis. No mere preaching of brotherly love, or class hatred, will produce one single brick for the building of the future temple of human victory—the temple of human civilization. Ordered production demands analysis of basic facts.

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

the business of Logic is not the analysis of generalities but their mingling.

The word "experience" is one of the most deceitful in philosophy. Its adequate discussion would be the topic for a treatise. I can only indicate those elements in my analysis of it which are relevant to the present train of thought.

It is 'the work of history', said Marx, 'to discover the various uses of things'.

Let's look at the record.

They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.

understood the world as much as possible through description rather than judgment,

I read quickly, flitting and sipping, skipping the boring bits and seizing on the oddities and inconsistencies which are often ignored by the scholars since they interfere with the measured and coherent approach to the matter at hand.

Literature is the equivalent of the climate scientist's computer simulations: set up some new starting conditions, run the whole complicated process and see what happens.

Not for the first time, he wonders why it is that married couples feel perfectly free to analyze the affairs of their unmarried friends; whereas if he were to make some comment on Joe and Debby's relationship they would be righteously pissed-off.

how ignorant he was; how childlike … He was simply beyond analysis; so simple

It's hard to say what philosophy is. Somebody, and I forget who, defined it as just thinking exceptionally hard.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Baseball is like live math.

Je n'injurie jamais, monsieur, je diagnostique.

De qué serviría dedicarle reproches a una persona incapaz de analizarlos, y más aún con tantos años de retraso?

Interpretation of the ECG is as much an art as it is a science.

It changes from track-to-track, but when you are behind someone, you know after a few laps where they are weaker and stronger around the lap. You try to position yourself in the best possible way to attack them at a point they don't expect or at the point that they are just not as strong as you. That's how you try to get past.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.