Thomas Browne Quotes

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

Let us study our misfortunes and go back to the causes.

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

Art is made in hindsight.

Details - that's what it comes down to, so you're always learning more about a play or a concept.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. I think political science is bad at prediction. I think what we really do well is in a number of instances where politics matters, we can do a better job of tell you what is happening now, than other people. So, we can look at Syria today. We can look at the Eurozone today. And we can look at areas where politics is a driver and we can give you a pretty good sense in those areas of here is how to understand today.

I'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.