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Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!

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• The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Study
  • Matter
  • Analysis

• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Character
  • Human
  • Analysis

• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Simple
  • Act
  • Analysis

• It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Kind
  • Strange
  • Analysis

• In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Down
  • Lie
  • Analysis

• In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Education
  • Genius
  • Judgment

• Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Art
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the principles of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Art
  • Equality
  • Principle

• The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Years
  • Analysis
  • Repetition

• It all rolls up and I think in the final analysis somewhere it's going to hit the consumer.

  

  Gary North
  • Analysis
  • Hit
  • Consumer

• The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Analysis

• Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Bodies
  • Holiness
  • Movements

• However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Analysis
  • Relevant
  • Assurance

• When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Trying
  • Analysis
  • Composition

• Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Prejudice
  • Donald Trump
  • Campaign

• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Drawing
  • Analysis
  • Projection

• Either one or the other (analysis or synthesis) may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.

  

  Andre-Marie Ampere
  • Discovery
  • Analysis
  • Synthesis

• There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations. There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

  

  Andre-Marie Ampere
  • Truths
  • Analysis
  • Synthesis

• Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Life
  • Art
  • Poetry

• My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Justice
  • Fair
  • Fairness

• When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Interested
  • Photograph
  • Built

• Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!

  

  Noga Alon
  • Analysis
  • Mathematicians
  • Paranoia