Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. – Alfred North Whitehead

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The habit of analysis, the ability to get under the surface of things and at the vital essentials, gives a man a tremendous advantage. – Anon.

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The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis. – Stephen Jay Gould

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