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
“Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its… — David Hume Copy Share Image
God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“This is not a book of truth, but simply a book that attempts with as little bias as humanly possible, to understand… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Instincts are effective tools of survival, but when it comes to finding true answers to real questions, your rational thinking is the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology,… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“The moment the religious population of the world begins to see the prophets what they really were - mortal teachers of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image