Quotes About Rationality

explain that people look at a piece of real estate, or the name of a stock, and often make their decision based on what their eyes see, what a broker tells them or on a hot tip from a fellow worker. They often buy emotionally instead of rationally.

constantly work to control my thoughts and my emotions. I've seen this play out over and over in my life: When emotion goes up, intelligence goes down.

When emotion goes up, intelligence goes down.

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions

Oh, WHY can't boys be just sensible!

Yaln?zca çok budala insanlar?n sürekli mant?kl? konuÅŸtuÄŸunu biliyor musun?

I won't be reasonable—I can't be reasonable—I AM reasonable.

was all uniformity;—he was systematical, and, like all systematic reasoners, he would move both heaven and earth, and twist and torture every thing in nature to support his hypothesis.

When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect. 

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

I don't believe in natural science.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.