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For having a clear influence on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, and for helping to found the following important subfields of computer science: the theory of parsing, the semantics of programming languages, automatic program verification, automatic program synthesis, and analysis of algorithms.
robert w floyd— 1978 Turing Award Citation[3]
Grattan-Guinness has achieved a synthesis here of remarkable historical and mathematical scope and sensitivity. His book is a 'must read' for historians of science and mathematics, as well as mathematicians.
ivor grattan-guinness— From Karen Hunger Parshall's review of The Rainbow of Mathematics (2000)
Having spent a lifetime analyzing the game of chess and comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind, and are then refined and improved by experience.
garry kasparov— Opening Gambit, Why Chess?, p. 4
What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.
syama prasad mookerjee— Speech delivered at Gurkula Visvavidyalaya Convocation on 25th April 1943.
The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly independent, keep an open mind, conduct his/her research objectively and without ideological prejudices, listen to all sides of an argument and seek the opinion of all stakeholders.
alfred de zayas— Alfred de Zayas Statement by on his personal website [55]
A system is only for the philosopher, for a system implies analysis, and the poetic method is essentially synthesis.
— In: The Academy, Volume 59, 1900
The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly independent, keep an open mind, conduct his/her research objectively and without ideological prejudices, listen to all sides of an argument and seek the opinion of all stakeholders.
— Alfred de Zayas Statement by on his personal website [55]
The synthesis of paleontology , taxonomy , and comparative anatomy that Cuvier achieved was based on a teleological approach to nature, one that gave primacy to functional purpose over structural affinity.
— Toby A. Appel, The Cuvier-Geoffrey Debate: French Biology in the Decades before Darwin (1987)
For the Middle Ages man was in every sense the centre of the universe. The whole world of nature was believed to be teleologically subordinate to him and his eternal destiny. Toward this conviction the two great movements which had become united in the medieval synthesis, Greek philosophy and Judeo-Christian theology, had irresistibly led.
— Edwin Arthur Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science; a Historical and Critical Essay (1925)
In certain passages of the OT the concept of Babylon emerges into an archetypal figure for the proud, God-defying forces of this world. In the NT it is even more clearly a type of pan-deism formed from a synthesis of Christianity and paganism; this is indicated symbolically in the description of the woman riding on the Beast.
— Charles F. Pfeiffer, Howard Frederic Vos, John Ream, The Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia, 1975, page 190, ISBN 0802496970.
Analysis and synthesis , though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood, only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other.
— Sir W. Hamilton, reported in Austin Allibone ed. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. (1903), p. 34
Designer is defined as an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
— R. Buckminster Fuller, in: Your Private Sky: Discourse, Springer Science & Business Media, 2001, p.301
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.
— Frederick the Great in: G.E. Martin The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, Springer Science & Business Media, 1975, p.19
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What’s more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you’ll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.
garry kasparov— Garry Kasparov in: Kasparov’s book sees chess as...Way to success, The Trinidad Guardian, 26 March 2008
Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.
— Unknown, in Accelerated Testing and Validation, Elsevier, 01-Jul-2004, p.191
Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright— Frank Lloyd Wright in: Toward Center: The Art of Being for Musicians, Actors, Dancers, and Teachers, GIA Publications, 2010, p.35
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian 's mind , and for his ultimate reputation , as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis .
— Samuel E. Morison in: Capitalizing on Language Learners' Individuality: From Premise to Practice, Multilingual Matters, 11 December 2013, p.198
The Bhagavadgita may be treated as a great synthesis of the ideas of the impersonal spiritual monism with personalistic monotheism, of the yoga of action with the yoga of transcendence of action, and these again with yogas of devotion and knowledge.
— By P.T. Raju in P T Raju (13 May 2013). The Philosophical Traditions of India. Routledge. p. 258. ISBN 1-135-02941-5.
"Doing science," particularly the synthesis of disparate ideas, is not as arcane as it is often made out to be. Discipline and taste play a vital role, but the activity is familiar to anyone who has made some effort to be creative.
john henry holland— Preface, p. xix
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.
carroll quigley— Conclusion, p. 415
The interaction and synthesis of men of religion with varying cultural back ground gave rise to a belief system of tolerance, accommodation, moderation and strict adherence to the principles of the great religion of Islam. This process of assimilation gave birth to a unique religious and secular architecture, represented by the Khanqah, mosque and vernacular houses. Though the city would be burnt, destroyed and rebuilt many times, yet in the end Srinagar survives as one of the representative intact cities of pre-modern vernacular and timber architecture.
— Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, in "Shehr -i- Kashmir"
Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.
— Edwin Grant Conklin in: Evolution by Association : A History of Symbiosis: A History of Symbiosis, Oxford University Press, 22 August 1994
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.
— Richard Courant in: The Australian Mathematics Teacher, Volumes 39-40, Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, 1983, p.3
The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations.
— Lewis Mumford in: Oliver Martin Sayler Revolt in the Arts: A Survey of the Creation, Distribution and Appreciation of Art in America, Sn., 1930, p.117
