Quotes About Rationality

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Would the unbeliever really believe in Christ just because you argue for biblical infallibility in a way that he cannot rationally object?

A rational way of thinking and knowing arrives at conclusions validly and necessarily deduced from true premises.

Man did not invent logic, but logic came from God, and we have some grasp of logic and perceive its necessity because God thinks in accordance with the principles of logic, and he has made us in his own image. God thinks in accordance with the principles of logic not because he is subservient to a set of rules that are higher than himself; rather, the principles of logic are descriptions of the way God thinks. They are descriptions of his rational nature.

Logic,' indeed!

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing [superstition], and love those who love you.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

but because no evidence had ever been offered Sabbath to persuade him that the dead were anything other than dead. To talk to them, admittedly, was to indulge in the most defensible of irrational human activities

I'm talking to a virtually inhumanly disciplined, rational person who has lost all sense of proportion and entered into a desperate story of unreasonable wishes. Yet that is what it is to be in life, isn't it? What it is to forge a life. You know your reason can reassert itself at any time - and if it does, there goes life and the instability that is life.

Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.

The comprehensive mind is always dialectical.