“I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.”
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Niels Bohr
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Bertrand Russell
2 quotes“Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.”
Thomas Jefferson
2 quotes“In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning bec...”
Percy Shelley
2 quotes“Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.”
Alfred Whitehead
1 quote“It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
Nassim Taleb
1 quote“The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-...”
Flannery O'Connor
1 quote“Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.”
Sophocles
1 quote“How dangerous can false reasoning prove!”
JFK
1 quote“Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
William S. Burroughs
1 quote“The simplest questions are the most difficult.”
Arthur Miller
1 quote“The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1 quote“...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.”