Variable A quantity that has the potential to change.

Peer Review The evaluation of a scientific report by other scientists who are experts in the same area (peers). They go through it bit by bit, examining the methods and data, and checking it's all clear and logical.

Valid Result A result that answers the question it was intended to answer.

Variable A quantity that has the potential to change.

Independent Variable The variable that you change in an experiment.

Dependent Variable The variable that you measure in an experiment.

Discrete Data Data that can only take certain values.

Continuous Data Data that can have any value on a scale.

Categoric Data Data that can be sorted into categories.

Ordered/Ordinal Data Categoric data where the categories can be put in order.

Precise Result A result that can be consistently reproduced in independent experiments.

Anomalous Result A result that doesn't fit in with the pattern of the other results in a set of data.

Precise Result A result that can be consistently reproduced in independent experiments.

Correlation The relationship between two values.

Correlation The relationship between two values.

Valid Result A result which answers the question it was intended to answer.

Accurate Result A result that is close to the true answer.

Precise Result A result that can be consistently reproduced in independent experiments.

Leaders do not play a "what if game". They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.

I hate the domestic life.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

People know that I'm going to do what's right.

I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

I am an avid fisherman, and my daily schedule is to write in the morning and then go fishing in the afternoon. In Maine, I fish mostly for stripers, and in the Florida Keys, I go after all kinds of game fish.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

I don't want to shield kids from reality.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.

I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.

Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.