Quotes About Analysis

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.