Analytical


1984
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Outliers: The Story of Success
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
How to Lie with Statistics
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth. It is true to say that nothing for the scientific scholar is comparable to the things that he has discovered. Indeed, it would be difficult to find an investigator willing to exchange the paternity of a scientific conquest for all the gold on earth. And if th ...more
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator

Edgar Allan Poe
Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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