1: Separation of a whole into its component parts

5 a: A method in philosophy of resolving complex expressions into simpler or more basic ones

Analyze

1: To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by analysis. Analyze suggests separating or distinguishing the component parts of something (as a substance, a process, a situation) so as to discover its true nature or inner relationships.

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There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

-- Robert Lynd, Irish essayist

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

-- Louis Pasteur

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

-- Franklin P. Adams, American journalist

The solution lies within the problem. People who consider themselves as "non-artistic" think that those of us who are (we must be, since we make such cool-looking stuff) have some magical power to make good ideas come out of nowhere. It does happen, (see Intuition) but not at the wave of a wand or the snap of a finger... More