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"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity"
Alan Turing, Mathematician
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature"
Sidney Hook, Philosopher
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one"
Charles Mackay, Poet
"To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting"
Stanislaus I, Royalty
"In everything one thing is impossible: rationality"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
"Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot"
George Orwell, Author
"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical"
Niels Bohr, Physicist
"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life"
Walter Scott, Novelist
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects"
Henri Poincare, Mathematician
"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality"
Karl Popper, Philosopher
"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom"
Georg Cantor, Mathematician
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind"
Imre Lakatos, Philosopher
"Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur"
Edmund Husserl, Philosopher
"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys"
Emma Bull, Writer
"Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat"
Ernest Bevin, Public Servant
"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible"
Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician
"Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information"
Abbie Hoffman, Activist
"The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence"
James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician
"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing"
Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist
"The wrong way always seems the more reasonable"
George A. Moore, Novelist
"The media's job is to question a premise"
Joey Skaggs, Celebrity
"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence"
Friedrich Engels, Philosopher
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