“We need a more holistic approach in which we take account of society's most vulnerable sectors. We shouldn't just do broad averaging of country statistics but rather we need to disaggregate the data to determine where the resources are most needed. In most cases, it's usually the reverse: those who are most marginalized - minorities and rural and remote communities - get the least attention and money.” NeedsCountryCommunityAttentionCasesNeededApproachResourcesAccountsDetermineVulnerableDataMinoritiesStatisticsBroadsReverseHolisticMarginalizedHolistic Approach Author:Mary Robinson
“What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.” ScienceLanguageUnderstandingConceptsAccountsRelationRegardStriveClarityDataMutualStrifeSensoryCorrespondence Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules-out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.” MenWayYearsScienceAsksSimpleAnswersModernTheoryHabitMassEssenceWeightAccountsClimateSevenWeatherDataFiftyEnterpriseConstructionSeven YearsTemperatureMoleculesManchesterChildlikeMonotonousEnquiryPertinentRainfall Author:Jacob Bronowski
“Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.” ProcessNaturalViewsStudyStudentsEvolutionArgumentAccountsPaidDataPreservesExpertsFancySelectionFossilsNatural SelectionStasis Author:Stephen Jay Gould