Quotes about Analysis

I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.

Among this pool are these: (a) explanatory power, (b) explanatory scope, (c) plausibility, (d) degree of ad hoc-ness and (e) conformity with other beliefs. The more explanatory power and scope and the more plausibility and conformity with other beliefs an explanation has, the better it is. The less ad hoc (adjusted, contrived, artificial) the explanation, the better as well. The trick is to subject all explanation options to these criteria.

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense

They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.

As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.

There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.