Quotes About Rationality

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.