Quotes by Analysis Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! Noga Alon analysisisraelscience Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic. Norman Doidge analysismemoriesneeds Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. Norman Doidge analysisactionmemories Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading. Nouriel Roubini analysisgrowthreading Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration. Octavio Paz analysiscriticismreal When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. Noam Chomsky analysiscollegefun ... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. Noam Chomsky supportiveanalysismedia Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis. Noam Chomsky analysisprinciplesgoal All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making. Ordway Tead effortanalysislasts Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork. Orrin Woodward paralysisanalysis The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later? Otto Rank analysistechniquedoe The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. Oscar Wilde analysisnaturepeople I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening with its consequences, and constructing a rational analysis of it without being able to verbalize it adequately in anything like its full complexity. Noam Chomsky analysiseventsthinking As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed. Noam Chomsky abstractanalysisideas What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us. Parker J. Palmer analysispoliticaltools I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth. Patricia Churchland assumptionanalysisself When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description. Patricia Churchland analysismaytrying Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead to the truth about these phenomena, not just to tidy things up a bit. Patricia Churchland philosopheranalysisends [Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing - one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me. Paul Halmos analysisscienceknowledge 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 analysisdoefacts«1011121314151617181920»
