"Qualitative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nor Rodriguez make a clear distinction between the quantitative function of no and the qualitative ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado
... group of facts in a story only obtain substantial embodiment when the artist's power of compelling imaginative persuasion transforms them into a living truth. I assume that such a living truth is the artist's essential object. The first test of a short story, therefore, in any qualitative analysis is to report upon how vitally compelling the writer makes his selected facts or incidents. This test may be known as the test ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... natural life; and at the beginning of the spiritual life we find that the spiritual life can only come from preexisting spiritual life. But there are not two Laws; there is one—Biogenesis. At one end the Law is dealing with matter, at the other with spirit. The qualitative terms natural and spiritual make no difference. Biogenesis is the Law for all life and for all kinds of life, and the particular substance with which it is associated is as indifferent to Biogenesis ...
— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond
... English about a joke is really wonderful. It is easy to see that they have never been brought up on them. But perhaps there was some excuse for the professor that day, for he was the president pro tem. of our projected temperance society, and as such he head been making a quantitative and qualitative analysis of another ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 • Various
... very long ago, the scholar was often content with qualitative observations. Many phenomena were studied without much trouble being taken to obtain actual measurements. But it is now becoming more and more understood that to establish the relations which exist between physical magnitudes, and to represent the variations of these magnitudes by functions ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare
... the Apparatus required in Chemical Work and General Chemical Manipulation, introducing the subject of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis. Fuels. — Analysis of Coal, Coke and other Fuels — Sampling and Testing for Moisture, Ash, Calorific Value, etc. — Comparative Heating Value of different Fuels and Relative ...
— The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics • Franklin Beech
... poetical, but fanciful and untrue. It confounds the progress of the race with the progress of the individual, the progress of civilization with the advance of the inner life. Why? Because its criterion is quantitative, that is to say, purely exterior (having regard to the wealth of life), and not qualitative (the goodness of life). Always the same tendency to take the appearance for the thing, the form for the substance, the law for the essence, always the same absence of moral personality, the same obtuseness of conscience, which has never recognized sin present in the will, which places evil outside ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... analysis of sources constitutes the third process of scholarly communication that MICHELSON discussed in terms of texts and textual resources. The methods used to analyze sources fall somewhere on a continuum from quantitative analysis to qualitative analysis. Typically, evidence is culled and evaluated using methods drawn from both ends of this continuum. At one end, quantitative analysis involves the use of mathematical processes such as a count of frequencies and distributions of occurrences or, on a higher level, ...
— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly
... without qualitative either formal or affectionate), "I did not promise to write to you, so I am doing it. London is very full of gay things which are not so gay as they look. I would rather see you and Whitefoot (give him a kiss from me!) than the procession of the Regent ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett |
