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Quotes About Reason

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.
~ Ian McEwan, Atonement
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
~ Galileo Galilei
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.
~ Lord Kelvin
Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.
~ Max Born
Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
~ Albert Einstein
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
~ Anton Chekhov
But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
~ A.J. Ayer
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
~ Thucydides
I don't believe in natural science.
~ Kurt Gödel
Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
~ Serj Tankian
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
~ Immanuel Kant
There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.
~ Theodore Hesburgh
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
~ Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
Science is practical philosophy.
~ Rene Descartes
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
~ Immanuel Kant
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
~ James Bryce
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.
~ Harun Yahya
Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.
~ Richard Dedekind
There are no creeds in mathematics.
~ Peter Drucker
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
~ E. O. Wilson
Science is the true theology.
~ Thomas Paine