The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it. It is so difficult and expensive to obtain for many uses that sheer cost eliminates it. A more economical substitute, which is almost universally used in such fields as opinion polling and market research, is called stratified random sampling.
To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.
Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.
Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible.
I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.
Every time I am on the field I am a threat to make a big play. I am going to do my job every day and can be relied upon.
The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.
Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.
Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.
Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible with the truthseeking role. That's probably true of the other fields, too, but maybe more so of the personalities that gravitate toward psychiatry. They tend to care about people and wish to be helpful.
On the field you gives it, you takes it, and yer doon't fookin' groomble!
Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security is merging with The Field, right now.
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.