Quotes and Sayings About Analysis
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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
-- Aaron Allston -
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.
-- Ada Lovelace -
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
-- Ada Lovelace -
Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.
-- Adolph Ochs -
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
-- Alan Perlis -
Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.
-- Albert A. Michelson -
History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
-- Albert Camus -
All I know of morality I learned from football
-- Albert Camus -
There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then, on down the line.
-- Alex Jones -
In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.
-- Alexander Kotov -
It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
-- Anais Nin -
all the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution ...
-- Anais Nin -
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 -
Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.
-- Andrei Shleifer -
A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.
-- Anne Truitt -
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
-- Arthur Ashe -
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.
-- Auguste Comte -
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
-- Auguste Comte -
The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible...
-- Avinash Dixit -
Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.
-- B. J. Palmer -
I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.
-- Ben Silbermann -
The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
-- Benjamin Graham -
My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.
-- Benjamin Lee Whorf -
Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.
-- Bill Gross
