Contextualization Quotes

It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.

I never was the story. The story was the story. Period.

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

History is always changing.

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

The historian must walk a fine line between scientific detachment and humanistic engagement.

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.

The major problem with most attempts to predict a specific outcome, such as interviews, is decontextualization: the attempt takes place in a generalized environment, as opposed to the context in which a behavior or trait naturally occurs.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

We know there are good sugars and bad sugars, and we don't discuss whether food in general is good or bad for us. We need to be far more nuanced when we talk about the effects of video games.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

I do wish that reviews were less like book reports. There was an era when reviewers had something to say about a book: when they painted context and drew conclusions. Many reviews these days are little more than plot summary.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

George Carlin maintained that anything and everything is funny given the right context. This context also includes your own history with a given group. What I can get away with and where I can go is not a problem with my audience because they know me.

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

I just don't believe in generalisations.

In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge