I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numb’d too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimm’d with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.
Safe, fallen down this way, I want to be just what I am.
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2
A Better Ressurrection
3
My life is like a faded leaf,
My harvest dwindled to a husk:
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall — the sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me.
My harvest dwindled to a husk:
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall — the sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me.
A Better Ressurrection
9
Howbeit, to meet you grows almost a pang
Because the pang of parting comes so soon;
My hope hangs waning, waxing, like a moon
Between the heavenly days on which we meet:
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?
Because the pang of parting comes so soon;
My hope hangs waning, waxing, like a moon
Between the heavenly days on which we meet:
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets, i
34
Little fly, thy summer’s play
My careless hand hath brushed away.
Am not I a fly like thee,
Or art not thou a man like me.
For I dance, and drink, and sing
Till some blind hand doth brush my wing.
If that is life, and strength, and breath
And the word of thought is death
Then am I a happy fly?
If I live, or if I die.
My careless hand hath brushed away.
Am not I a fly like thee,
Or art not thou a man like me.
For I dance, and drink, and sing
Till some blind hand doth brush my wing.
If that is life, and strength, and breath
And the word of thought is death
Then am I a happy fly?
If I live, or if I die.
36
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
Light
48
I love thee with the love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
53
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Note Books
122
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Is come, my love is come to me.
A Birthday
132
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth, V. i. 19.
154
Sleep—Death without dying—living, but not life.
168
The three stages of a man’s life:
1. He believes in Santa Claus;
2. He doesn’t believe in Santa Claus;
3. He is Santa Claus.
1. He believes in Santa Claus;
2. He doesn’t believe in Santa Claus;
3. He is Santa Claus.
266
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
281
All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
286
All life is a struggle in the dark ... This dread and
darkness of the mind cannot be dispelled by the
sunbeams, the shining shafts of day, but only by
an understanding of the outward form and inner
workings of nature. And now to business,
I will explain ...
darkness of the mind cannot be dispelled by the
sunbeams, the shining shafts of day, but only by
an understanding of the outward form and inner
workings of nature. And now to business,
I will explain ...
On the Nature of the Universe
292
Our life is frittered away by detail ... Simplify, simplify.
293
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.
308
Be hald, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are to decline your nectared wine,
But all you must drink life’s gall.
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are to decline your nectared wine,
But all you must drink life’s gall.
Solitude
349
Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease.
400
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
403
To change one’s life:
1. Start immediately
2. Do it flamboyantly
3. No exceptions
1. Start immediately
2. Do it flamboyantly
3. No exceptions
411
It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another—It’s one damn thing over and over.
429
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson
431
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
435
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
440
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
464
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
475
Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
521
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
546
In our age ... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering.
566
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin, real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
595
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not
wait at the end to arrest it.
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not
wait at the end to arrest it.
Song of Myself
625
In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or today.
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or today.
As I Walked Out One Evening
632
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice,
though not in principle. [Mr. Darcy]
though not in principle. [Mr. Darcy]
Pride and Prejudice, Ch. 58
663
O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
The Sick Rose
744
Vivre est une chute horizontale.
[Life is falling sideways.]
[Life is falling sideways.]
Opium
763
Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
Hope, i.127
770
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
We have no time to stand and stare?
Leisure
777
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Choruses from "The Rock"
778
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
812
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
The Custom of the Country, II.ii
813
Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment,
Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie.
[Love’s pleasure lasts but a moment,
love’s sorrow lasts all through life.]
Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie.
[Love’s pleasure lasts but a moment,
love’s sorrow lasts all through life.]
Celestine
826
Life is a joke that’s just begun.
830
Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
[Talent develops in quiet places,
character in the full current of human life.]
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
[Talent develops in quiet places,
character in the full current of human life.]
Torquato Tasso
832
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble
Courage in your own.
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble
Courage in your own.
Ye Wearie Wayfarer
843
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles,
with sniffles predominating.
with sniffles predominating.
The Gift of the Magi
851
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Aphorisms, I.i
853
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table
862
This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
Familiar Letters, bk.ii, let.73
895
Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbour give
To more virtue than doth live.
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbour give
To more virtue than doth live.
Epitaph on Elizabeth L.H.
903
O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!
914
I strove with ; for was worth my strife;
Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Finis
931
Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang,
Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang.
[Who loves not woman, wine, and song
Remains a fool his whole life long.]
Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang.
[Who loves not woman, wine, and song
Remains a fool his whole life long.]
943
Non est, crede mini, sapientis dicere ’Vivam’: Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
[Believe me, wise men don’t say ’I shall live to do that, tomorrow’s life’s too late; live today.]
[Believe me, wise men don’t say ’I shall live to do that, tomorrow’s life’s too late; live today.]
954
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
Lolita, ch. 1
967
There are two tragedies in life.
One is to lose your heart’s desire.
The other is to gain it.
One is to lose your heart’s desire.
The other is to gain it.
968
Life is short, live it up.
971
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
972
Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case, but rather the endlessly astonishing synthesis of the contradictions of everyday life.
984
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Conclusion
992
My soul, do not seek immortal life, but exhaust
the realm of the possible.
the realm of the possible.
1002
La vie humaine commence de l’autre cote du desespoir.
[Human life begins on the other side of despair.]
[Human life begins on the other side of despair.]
Les Mouches, III,2
1013
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
1019
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
1046
Thou art my way; I wander, if thou fly;
Thou art my light; if hid, how blind am I!
Thou art my life; if thou withdraw, I die.
Thou art my light; if hid, how blind am I!
Thou art my life; if thou withdraw, I die.
Hugo de Anima, bk.iii, No.7
1060
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this,
that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
Epistulae Morales
1082
O God! methinks it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.
Henry VII, Part III, II.v.21
1084
Nor stony tower, nor wall of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Julius Caesar, I.iii.93
1092
For the crown of our life as it closes
Is darkness, the fruit there of dust;
No thorns go as deep as the rose’s,
And love is more cruel than lust.
Time turns the old days to derision,
Our loves into corpses or wives;
And marriage and death and division
Make barren our lives.
Is darkness, the fruit there of dust;
No thorns go as deep as the rose’s,
And love is more cruel than lust.
Time turns the old days to derision,
Our loves into corpses or wives;
And marriage and death and division
Make barren our lives.
Dolores
1096
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
The last of life, for which the first was made.
The best is yet to be.
The last of life, for which the first was made.
Rabbi Ben Ezra
1109
Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
Adonais
1119
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
1120
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness.
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another.
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.
Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness.
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another.
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.
Tales of a Wayside Inn
1121
Some reckon their age by years,
Some measure their life by art;
But some tell their days by the flow of their tears
And their lives by the moans of their hearts.
Some measure their life by art;
But some tell their days by the flow of their tears
And their lives by the moans of their hearts.
1137
Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb,
And life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb,
And life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
1138
My life is light, waiting for the death wind,
Like a feather on the back of my hand.
Like a feather on the back of my hand.
1140
Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul’s life is gone.
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul’s life is gone.
Ajax
1142
Don’t strew me with roses after I’m dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!
1165
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain—This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;
The Flower that once is blown for ever dies.
One thing at least is certain—This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;
The Flower that once is blown for ever dies.
Rubaiyat, LXVI, trans. by Edward Fitzgerald (2nd ed.)
1172
Then, every day was a week, each month a year. A season was a decade, and every year a life.
The Crow Road
1190
I cannot starve thee out: I am thy prey
And thou shalt have me; but I dare defend
That I can stave thee off; and I dare say,
What with the life I lead, the force I spend,
I’ll be but bones and jewels on that day,
And leave thee hungry even in the end.
And thou shalt have me; but I dare defend
That I can stave thee off; and I dare say,
What with the life I lead, the force I spend,
I’ll be but bones and jewels on that day,
And leave thee hungry even in the end.
Sonnets, cxxviii
1209
I learned this, at least, by my experiement;
that if one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
that if one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Walden
1210
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could
not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could
not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
Walden
1220
I looked and saw your heart
In the shadow of your eyes,
As a seeker sees the gold
In the shadow of the stream;
And I said, "Ah me! what art
Should win the immortal prize,
Whose want must make life cold
And Heaven a hollow dream?"
In the shadow of your eyes,
As a seeker sees the gold
In the shadow of the stream;
And I said, "Ah me! what art
Should win the immortal prize,
Whose want must make life cold
And Heaven a hollow dream?"
Three Shadows
1234
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.
A Woman of No Importance
1275
Lady, lady, should you meet
One whose ways are all discreet,
One who murmurs that his wife
Is the lodestar of his life,
One who keeps assuring you
That he never was untrue,
Never loved another one ...
Lady, lady, better run!
One whose ways are all discreet,
One who murmurs that his wife
Is the lodestar of his life,
One who keeps assuring you
That he never was untrue,
Never loved another one ...
Lady, lady, better run!
Social Note
1285
Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat;
My dress is 1922....
My life is all like that.
And pristine is my hat;
My dress is 1922....
My life is all like that.
Autobiography
1338
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
1346
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
1389
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure
the operation of life.
the operation of life.
1429
Love loves for ever,
And finds a sort of joy in pain,
And gives with nought to take again,
And loves too well to end in vain:
Is the gain small then?
Love laughs at "never",
Outlives our life, exceeds the span
Appointed to mere mortal man:
All which love is and does and can
Is all in all then.
And finds a sort of joy in pain,
And gives with nought to take again,
And loves too well to end in vain:
Is the gain small then?
Love laughs at "never",
Outlives our life, exceeds the span
Appointed to mere mortal man:
All which love is and does and can
Is all in all then.
1431
Morning at last: there in the snow
Your small blunt footprints come and go.
Night has left no more to show,
Not the candle, half-drunk wine,
Or touching joy; only this sign
Of your life walking into mine.
But when they vanish with the rain
What morning woke to will remain,
Whether as happiness or pain.
Your small blunt footprints come and go.
Night has left no more to show,
Not the candle, half-drunk wine,
Or touching joy; only this sign
Of your life walking into mine.
But when they vanish with the rain
What morning woke to will remain,
Whether as happiness or pain.
1471
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory out of desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in a forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory out of desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in a forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
The Waste Land
1476
To die, to sleep—
To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause; there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause; there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
Hamlet
1482
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved—loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
1488
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
1502
I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
Sea Fever
1537
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
1541
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange—my youth.
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange—my youth.
1544
Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings,
And childrens’s faces looking up
Holding wonder in a cup.
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings,
And childrens’s faces looking up
Holding wonder in a cup.
Barter
1553
Life is a school of probability.
World of Mathematics by J.R. Newman (ed.) [quoted]
1588
As you go down the
Stream of life in your
Little canoe, I hope
You will have a jolley
Time, with plenty of
Room for two,
Love is to the human
Heart as sunshine is
To flowers, And friendship
Is the fairest thing in
This cold world of ours.
Stream of life in your
Little canoe, I hope
You will have a jolley
Time, with plenty of
Room for two,
Love is to the human
Heart as sunshine is
To flowers, And friendship
Is the fairest thing in
This cold world of ours.
Autograph Albums and Bible of Ella Beaver Calhoun
1596
I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
1605
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness, and knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
Prophet
1618
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
1640
Alas! how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too much or a kiss too long,
And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.
A sigh too much or a kiss too long,
And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.
Phantastes
1641
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
Eternity
1663
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
By her just standard, which is still the same:
Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of art.
By her just standard, which is still the same:
Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of art.
Essay On Criticism
1666
I want to fall in love with him again. I never stopped loving him - I've always loved him and always will - but our life together is verging on monotony. Love can withstand this, but for lust, it's fatal.
Adultery
1667
So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.
Everything is Illuminated
1670
But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,
And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life,
And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life,
And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
Prophet
1672
Life is short. But death is very, very long.
Quicksand
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Nasa to send our human genome discs to the Moon
We'd like to say a âcosmic helloâ: mathematics, culture, palaeontology, art and science, and ... human genomes.
▲ SANCTUARY PROJECT | A cosmic hello of art, science, and genomes.
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▲ SANCTUARY PROJECT | Benoit Faiveley, founder of the Sanctuary project gives the Sanctuary disc a visual check at CEA LeQ Grenoble (image: Vincent Thomas).
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▲ SANCTUARY PROJECT | Sanctuary team examines the Life disc at INRIA Paris Saclay (image: Benedict Redgrove)
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Comparing classifier performance with baselines
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. âGeorge Orwell
This month, we will illustrate the importance of establishing a baseline performance level.
Baselines are typically generated independently for each dataset using very simple models. Their role is to set the minimum level of acceptable performance and help with comparing relative improvements in performance of other models.
▲ Nature Methods Points of Significance column: Comparing classifier performance with baselines.
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Unfortunately, baselines are often overlooked and, in the presence of a class imbalance5, must be established with care.
Megahed, F.M, Chen, Y-J., Jones-Farmer, A., Rigdon, S.E., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2024) Points of significance: Comparing classifier performance with baselines. Nat. Methods 20.
Happy 2024 Ï Day—
sunflowers ho!
Celebrate Ï Day (March 14th) and dig into the digit garden. Let's grow something.
▲ 2024 Ï DAY | A garden of 1,000 digits of Ï.
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How Analyzing Cosmic Nothing Might Explain Everything
Huge empty areas of the universe called voids could help solve the greatest mysteries in the cosmos.
My graphic accompanying How Analyzing Cosmic Nothing Might Explain Everything in the January 2024 issue of Scientific American depicts the entire Universe in a two-page spread — full of nothing.
▲ How Analyzing Cosmic Nothing Might Explain Everything. Text by Michael Lemonick (editor), art direction by Jen Christiansen (Senior Graphics Editor), source: SDSS
The graphic uses the latest data from SDSS 12 and is an update to my Superclusters and Voids poster.
Michael Lemonick (editor) explains on the graphic:
“Regions of relatively empty space called cosmic voids are everywhere in the universe, and scientists believe studying their size, shape and spread across the cosmos could help them understand dark matter, dark energy and other big mysteries.
To use voids in this way, astronomers must map these regions in detailâa project that is just beginning.
Shown here are voids discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), along with a selection of 16 previously named voids. Scientists expect voids to be evenly distributed throughout spaceâthe lack of voids in some regions on the globe simply reï¬ects SDSSâs sky coverage.”
voids
Sofia Contarini, Alice Pisani, Nico Hamaus, Federico Marulli Lauro Moscardini & Marco Baldi (2023) Cosmological Constraints from the BOSS DR12 Void Size Function Astrophysical Journal 953:46.
Nico Hamaus, Alice Pisani, Jin-Ah Choi, Guilhem Lavaux, Benjamin D. Wandelt & Jochen Weller (2020) Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2020:023.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12
Alan MacRobert (Sky & Telescope), Paulina Rowicka/Martin Krzywinski (revisions & Microscopium)
Hoffleit & Warren Jr. (1991) The Bright Star Catalog, 5th Revised Edition (Preliminary Version).
H0 = 67.4 km/(Mpc·s), Ωm = 0.315, Ωv = 0.685. Planck collaboration Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters (2018).
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Error in predictor variables
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision that the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. âAristotle
In regression, the predictors are (typically) assumed to have known values that are measured without error.
Practically, however, predictors are often measured with error. This has a profound (but predictable) effect on the estimates of relationships among variables â the so-called âerror in variablesâ problem.
▲ Nature Methods Points of Significance column: Error in predictor variables.
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Error in measuring the predictors is often ignored. In this column, we discuss when ignoring this error is harmless and when it can lead to large bias that can leads us to miss important effects.
Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2024) Points of significance: Error in predictor variables. Nat. Methods 20.
Background reading
Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2015) Points of significance: Simple linear regression. Nat. Methods 12:999â1000.
Lever, J., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2016) Points of significance: Logistic regression. Nat. Methods 13:541â542 (2016).
Das, K., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2019) Points of significance: Quantile regression. Nat. Methods 16:451â452.
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