Quotes about Analysis

Black feminists speak as women because we are women and do not need others to speak for us. It is for Black men to speak up and tell us why and how their manhood is so threatened that Black women should be the prime targets of their justifiable rage. what correct analysis of this capitalist dragon within which we live can legitimize the rape of Black women by Black men?

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

Economics is also an effective theory, based on the notion of free will plus the assumption that people evaluate their possible alternative courses of action and choose the best. That effective theory is only moderately successful in predicting behavior because, as we all know, decisions are often not rational or are based on a defective analysis of the consequences of the choice. This is why the world is in such a mess.

Bonhoeffer openly thought things through and taught his students to do the same. They followed lines of reasoning to their logical conclusions and considered every angle to have a sense of absolute thoroughness, so that nothing depended on mere emotion.

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

Wilson has some fancy name for it, but I call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eating line I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I call shallamagouslem.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

Any good scientist will tell you there is one important rule: follow the evidence wherever it leads you...Good science is objective —that means it looks only at the evidence, even if the evidence points to something we don't want to believe.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.