Undoubtedly, modern Science is rational and the scientific…

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

— John von Neumann

I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no…

— Murray Bookchin

“When it comes to the Big Questions in Life, the preponderance of evidence should be our best advisor to inform our Beliefs. The companion…

— Brian Goedken

“When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he or she…

— Helen DeWitt

“It's no use preaching to the choir. The rulebook, evidence, and good, old-fashioned fact-checking – let alone human decency – have been thrown out…

— H.M. Forester

Most haystacks do not even have a needle.

— Lorenzo Lamas

“If we accept that there will always be sides, it’s a nontrivial to-do list item to always be on the side of angels. Distrust…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.”

— VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis

“The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.”

— Nino Gruettke

“the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead”

— David Levithan

So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.

— George Vincent

European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.

— Martin Schulz

I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.

— George Saunders

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to…

— Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from…

— Steven Pinker