“In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. — Peter of Alcantara Copy Share Image
Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any… — David Oderberg Copy Share Image
Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Now, they invent them deliberately just… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
People will change when they see that the change will help them reach their goals. If the CHRO sees that the HR… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
While often being called transdisciplinary, theonomous reasoning is actually a first step back to ancient wisdom in which methodological sensation [or what… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two… — John Perry Copy Share Image
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“I have learned over the years that the higher the level of emotion, the lower the level of reasoning. For example, if… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex… — William James Copy Share Image
Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing. — George Polya Copy Share Image
Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“When you leave reasoning & start believing than nothing is reasonable & everything is believable.” — Imran Bughio Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then… — Theodore Wilbur Anderson Copy Share Image
“The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.” — Alessandro Volta Copy Share Image
“Brain thrives on assumptions, that ain't the problem, trouble begins when all thought ends at assumption.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto. — Arthur Mattuck Copy Share Image
Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication… — Oliver Evans Copy Share Image
It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image