Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.
The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.
It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.
I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.
When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.
Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.
My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.
Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.
Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.
For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.
I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.
Those who are close to me know that I am a person who likes to analyse everything before making a decision.
They could find something wrong with every car if they took it apart for a whole day at the R&D center.
The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.
