Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. – Henri Frederic Amiel
At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do. – Jack Dangermond
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. – Alan Dundes
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
John Paul II made it clear that… liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable. – Claudio Hummes
You’ve heard the saying, ‘Analysis creates paralysis.’ You can’t be 100 percent sure of anything. – Mark Burnett
Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself. – Natalie Wood
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation. – Max Weber
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. – Karl Abraham
My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size. – Paul Nurse
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. – Ronald Fisher
Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn’t always take the neediest into account. – Susana Martinez
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. – Thorstein Veblen
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. – Thomas Kuhn
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
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable. – Ulrich Beck
