Quotes About Rationality

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

A man of logic is a man of sin.

Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe.

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

La cultura no puede convivir pacíficamente con la gestión, sobre todo, cuando ésta es molesta e insidiosa, y, más aún, cuando se trata de una gestión dedicada a distorsionar las ansias exploradoras/experimentadoras de la cultura para que encaje en el marco de la racionalidad dibujado por los gestores

One cannot exchange ideas with a rational person any more than one can argue with a religious fanatic.

however, the reflexive image of the Enemy creates destructive hatred between individuals and between groups. Although these individuals or groups may feel liberated from restraints against attacking the supposed adversary, such people have actually surrendered their freedom of choice, abdicated their rationality, and are now the prisoners of a primal thinking mechanism.

Be guided by reason. Cold Calculated unimpassioned reason

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason.

demonstrates quite clearly Swift's maxim that you cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.

I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence.

A world that demands high degrees of self-control, cynicism, and rationality—and is marked by extreme insecurity and competitiveness—justly sees in childhood its own counterbalancing virtues, qualities that have too sternly and definitively had to be surrendered in return for the keys to the adult realm.

Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who

We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause! So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away… Forever.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us...

Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and is willing to find out what they communicate.

At the time of action, our decision is based on a set of assumptions. The assumptions may be wrong. Leaders have to constantly deal with uncertainty, give hope to the people even when nothing is clear. Decisions become good or bad in hindsight. We would like to believe that a decision is rational. More often than not, decisions are rationalized.

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.