Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite… — David Berman 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
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
The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist… — Sydney J. Harris 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
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“No one is an outside observer of nature, We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our… — Beau Lotto Copy Share Image
The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“They can’t help it, you know. It happens in the egg,” she reasoned. “As soon as they grow that genitalia, intelligence goes… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don't like to explain it too much. It's based on science, deduction,… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions… — Ziauddin Sardar Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. "Wait - he beats women and seems… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me.… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“reasoning is a uniquely human talent. It may have arisen from our need to understand one another’s intentions and motivations. This allowed… — John Medina Copy Share Image
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
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![“[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they weren't all powerful, that history could always be wrong about man. Today, this is how we are starting to think.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9f7/catherine-camus-12238_accounts_albert-camus-always-insisted-that-histor_1773895.jpg)
