Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams… — Thomas Banchoff 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to… — Tim Field 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
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
[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
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
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we… — Moby Copy Share Image
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image