Analytical Thought Quotes

“Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.”
― Alastair Pilkington

“How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.”
― Peter B. Medawar

“In any system, the component with the most strategic options controls the outcome.”
― Abdullah Ansari Qadri