Erwin Schrodinger Quotes
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
-
I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
-
So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.
-
If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
-
Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.
-
I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
-
I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
-
Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
-
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
-
I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?
-
We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.
-
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
-
In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
-
The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.
-
Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.
-
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
-
I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.
-
Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
-
Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
-
I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.
-
That is what I want to make clear today. A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far, dark reaches of the Internet, should never run our government or command our military.
-
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
