The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone

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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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.

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

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. – Francois FeNelon

Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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