Analysis Quote by Lancelot Law Whyte

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

— Albert Einstein

“Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete…

— Thomas Gilovich

I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For…

— Gottfried Leibniz

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

— Anonymous

“Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background of common…

— Richard Dawkins

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

— Densey Clyne

Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to…

— Edward Gibbon

Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.

— Doris Lessing

In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge,…

— William Whewell

“that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts.”

— Scott Adams