Quotes About Reasoning

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Bible verses are high-powered doses of truth that mainline God's wisdom into our reasoning.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.

26. The conclusions of human reasoning as ordinarily applied in matters of nature, I call for the sake of distinction anticipations of nature (as something rash or premature). That reason which is elicited from facts by a just and methodical process, I call interpretation of nature.

G* No individual mathematician ascertains mathematical truth solely by means of an algorithm that he or she knows to be sound.

This is how Kant explains the moral motive. When I ask myself not what I want to do, but what I ought to do, then I stand back from myself, and put myself in the position of an impartial judge.

Days later, Melancton Smith finally broke the deadlock when he endorsed the Constitution if Congress would promise to consider some amendments. Paying indirect tribute to Hamilton, Smith credited "the reasonings of gentlemen" on the other side for his changed vote.

If you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

If you hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras.

They're shrinks. You said so yourself. They overcomplicate things. If you hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras.

No reason to look for complications. You hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras.

Any good scientist will tell you there is one important rule: follow the evidence wherever it leads you...Good science is objective —that means it looks only at the evidence, even if the evidence points to something we don't want to believe.

The soul cannot be immortal if it is composed of many things unless the composition is most perfect. But the soul as we know it from our experience lacks that perfect harmony. In order to find the truth, one would have to recover by reasoning the original or true nature of the soul. This reasoning is not achieved in the Republic . That is to say, Socrates proves the immortality of the soul without having brought to light the nature of the soul.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

God figured out when he separated us from the rest of the creatures that if we have the power to reason and justify and make decisions, then we are going to make a lot of mistakes passing through. Big, big, big mistakes. God understood that, then gave us the ultimate human power, the power of redemption.

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As Lerner had predicted, the observers had a need to understand the situation in terms of cause and effect.

at a time when mystical incantation was more valued than mathematical calculation.

As we'll see, the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can therefore have a hard time accepting the influence of unrelated or random factors.

Induction means really the process of coming to conclusions on the basis of observation. Deduction is the process of coming to conclusions on the basis of earlier abstractions.

the first requirement of expanding his knowledge is induction, which is in essence the process of inferring a generalization from observations.

A necessary complement to induction is deduction, the standard example of which is: "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal." The