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Quotes About Analysis

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
~ David Eagleman
In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.
~ Sigmund Freud
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.
~ Ben Goldacre
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.
~ Peter Debye
Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.
~ Peter Pronovost
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.
~ Karl Popper
With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.
~ Jennifer Tour Chayes
Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.
~ Carl Sagan
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
~ Claude Bernard
There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.
~ Charles Lederer
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
~ Paul Valery
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
~ William James
a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.
~ Anne Roe
The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.
~ Willie Soon
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
~ Claude Bernard
Research is appreciation.
~ Willis R. Whitney
Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
~ Thomas Sowell
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
~ John Ruskin
Let the experiment be made.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.
~ Donald Knuth
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
~ Claude Bernard
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
~ Thomas Sowell
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
~ Claude Bernard