Quotes About Analysis

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

Science is nothing but the process of finding solutions.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big.

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.

I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.

Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

To understand the problem we must explore the situation.

Be guided by reason. Cold Calculated unimpassioned reason

_Not really liking it much_ is a precondition of art criticism of all kinds.

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.

Yet again, isn't there something terrible in randomness—the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it's just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.

the simplicity of many of Bush's pronouncements is often misinterpreted as evidence that he has penetrated to the core of a complex issue, when in fact exactly the opposite is true: They often mark his refusal even to consider complexity. And that's particularly troubling in a world where the challenges America faces are often quite complex and require rigorous, sustained, disciplined analysis.

I heard precious little questioning of the preposterous logic by which the president and vice president had conflated Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. It was as if the nation had decided to suspend the normal rigors of logical analysis while we pursued war against a noun (terror) and a nation (Iraq) that had absolutely nothing to do with the attack we were seeking to avenge.