“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
“The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.”
“fear doesn t listen to reason it takes it own counsel”
“Sound reasoning is impossible without truth.”
“As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.”
“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”
“I might as well have struggled with a bear or reasoned with a lunatic.”
“We can observe, but reasoning about what we observe requires truth.”
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
“Humor is reason gone mad.”
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
“I mean, you could claim that anything s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody s proved it doesn t exist!”
“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
“In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.”
“It didn t make you noble to step away from something that wasn t working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.”
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”