“History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps by only the most vocal men; it does not teach us whether the change was sound or whether the rejected view deserved to be rejected. Only an impartial analysis of the view in question, an analysis that is not dazzled by the victory or stunned by the defeat of the adherents of the view concerned - could teach us anything regarding the worth of the view and hence regarding the meaning of the historical change.” MenDoeHas BeensGivenSoundViewsTeachVictoryConcernedHistoricalDefeatFavorsAnalysisAbandonedRejectedVocalCompetentStunnedHistorical Change Author:Leo Strauss
“I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.” MenWantFeelingsEarthSoundModernAnalysisProphecyModern Society Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.” SelfHelpingRealitySeemsLastsSoundImaginationDoubtOur LivesExpressionPressureAnalysisNo DoubtPreservationSelf Preservation Book:The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.” ChildrenHardScienceSoundVoiceCan DoHard WorkAnalysisYou Can Do ItMoleculesSignaturesToddlerPlaytime Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and exigencies, then it is difficult to believe that the feminism of the passing generation, already hardened into dogma and tradition, represents the completed form of woman's relations to work, interests and society.” IfsBelievePastFormDifficultSoundInterestGenerationsFeminismTraditionRelationPassingPassingsAnalysisDogmaDishesCrowdedHardened Book:Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard
“Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentProblemGrowsSoundMediaPoliticianConflictDiseaseConcernedComplexesCongressProfitDebateTendenciesDataAnalysisSensitivePrizeCooperationBitesStaffSymptomsDifferent PlacePartisansMaineSound BitesIncivility Author:Tom Allen