“I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.” WayWantBookMatterLastsForceFocusSubjectsShapesTestsNo Matter WhatCaptureGeographySociologicalTest Of Time Author:David Maraniss
“Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.” SubjectsHumourSeriousBearsTestsAncientWitGravitySageRidiculeExaminationSuspiciousJest Author:Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?” WantGivingDifferentSchoolJobsChoicesThreeAsksGivenSupportEconomyWeekSubjectsStudentsHigh SchoolTestsTwentiesSpendingRidiculousScoreGraduatesConsideringProbabilitySalaryProjectionDifferent JobsAllocationHigh School StudentsTest Scores Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.” IfsCharacterStoriesInterestingQualitySubjectsEffectsCriticismTestsHarmonyDeedsPainterLandscapeEaseFeaturesAnalysisMotiveFacultySentimentsComprehensionIdentificationProminent Author:Robert Aris Willmott
“When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.” FirstsYoungCertainStuffClassHappenedSubjectsTestsMathBe GoodTextbooks Author:Bill Gates
“Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.” WorldWayShouldDifferentMatterRealityUnderstandingCommonSubjectsTestsTheologyInvestigationSubject MatterEnquiryDifferent Subjects Author:John Polkinghorne
“It's more going back into, I've always been really interested in the MKULTRA program and some of the programs and the fact that we really tried to create an actual, I guess you could call it an energy force of yourself. And you know, there were test subjects that were killed during the process. It have a huge ordeal, this huge congressional hearing that shut the whole thing down.” KnowsWholeFactsEnergyForceProcessSubjectsHugeProgramTestsHearingOrdeals Author:Len Wiseman